What is CVE-2023-36424?
Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
The record classifies CVE-2023-36424 under weakness class CWE-125. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 14 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1082 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 7.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 12.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.0% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2026-04-13, federal remediation deadline 2026-04-27
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- Published
- 2023-11-14, last modified 2026-04-14
Is CVE-2023-36424 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2023-36424 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-04-13, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2026-04-27 under BOD 22-01. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2023-36424 is publicly available. 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 47 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- zerozenxlabs/CVE-2023-36424 (github)
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- (vendor unspecified): microsoft:windows_server_2022, microsoft:windows_11_21h2, microsoft:windows_server_2012, microsoft:windows_10_22h2, microsoft:windows_server_2008, microsoft:windows_10_1809, microsoft:windows_10_1507, microsoft:windows_server_2019, microsoft:windows_10_1607, microsoft:windows_11_23h2, microsoft:windows_server_2016, microsoft:windows_11_22h2, microsoft:windows_10_21h2, microsoft:windows_server_2022_23h2
How to fix CVE-2023-36424
The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2023-36424. Patch reference: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36424. Vendor advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36424. Because CVE-2023-36424 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2026-04-27. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2023-36424
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2023-36424, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.