CVE-2023-38140 (GCVE-0-2023-38140)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-12 16:58
Modified
2025-10-30 18:17
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Summary
Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809 Version: 10.0.17763.0   < 10.0.17763.4851
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