CVE-2018-8492

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 2.10 % · percentile 82 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-10-10
Updated: 2024-08-05
Assigner: microsoft
NVD status: Modified

Description

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Device Guard that could allow an attacker to inject malicious code into a Windows PowerShell session, aka "Device Guard Code Integrity Policy Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Windows 10 Servers.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-20122
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-8492

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2018-AVI-484 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Microsoft Windows · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1703:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1803:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1709:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:1803:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016	affected (Server Core installation)
Microsoft · Windows 10	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 ; affected Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019	affected (Server Core installation)
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
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