CVE-2018-8406

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.8
Exploitation: Known exploited (CISA KEV) · added 2022-03-28
Exploited per ENISA since 2022-03-28
EPSS: EPSS 3.44 % · percentile 89 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-08-15
Updated: 2025-10-21
Assigner: microsoft
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL) driver improperly handles objects in memory, aka "DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8400, CVE-2018-8401, CVE-2018-8405.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	HIGH 7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-404

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-20044
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-8406

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2018-AVI-397 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Microsoft Windows · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:-:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:-:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1703:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1703:-:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1709:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1709:-:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1803:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1803:-:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_1709:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_1803:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016	affected (Server Core installation)
Microsoft · Windows 10	affected 32-bit Systems ; affected Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems ; affected Version 1607 for x64-based Systems ; affected Version 1703 for 32-bit Systems ; affected Version 1703 for x64-based Systems ; affected Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
Microsoft · Windows 10 Servers	affected version 1709 (Server Core Installation) ; affected version 1803 (Server Core Installation)

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities	CC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD