Exploitation Summary
CVE-2023-36563 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added October 10, 2023.
Description
Microsoft WordPad Information Disclosure Vulnerability
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
US Government Resource
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-36563
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36563
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0283
EPSS Percentile
86.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
active
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CISA KEV
2023-10-10
VulnCheck KEV
2023-10-10
InTheWild.io
2023-10-10
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2023-40509
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (14)
microsoft/windows_10_1507
< 10.0.10240.20232
microsoft/windows_10_1607
< 10.0.14393.6351 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_10_1809
< 10.0.17763.4974 (4 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_10_21h2
< 10.0.19041.3570
microsoft/windows_10_22h2
< 10.0.19045.3570
microsoft/windows_11_21h2
< 10.0.22000.2538
microsoft/windows_11_22h2
< 10.0.22621.2428
microsoft/windows_server_2008
microsoft/windows_server_2008
r2 sp1
microsoft/windows_server_2012
... and 4 more
Published
Oct 10, 2023
KEV Added
Oct 10, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026