CVE-2012-1865

Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/2008 Privilege Escalation via String Atom Class

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly handle user-mode input passed to kernel mode for driver objects, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "String Atom Class Name Handling Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1864.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15649

Scores

EPSS 0.0164
EPSS Percentile 73.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (6)
microsoft/windows_2003_server (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_7 (4 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_server_2003
microsoft/windows_server_2008 (4 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_vista
microsoft/windows_xp (2 CPE variants)
Published Jun 12, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026