CVE-2018-8120

7.0

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Win32k...

Exploited in the wild Used in malware No user interaction

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
Published: May 09, 2018
EPSS: —

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8124, CVE-2018-8164, CVE-2018-8166.

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CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.0 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 7.2

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-03-15 00:00:00 UTC · Source

Used in malware

Recorded 2022-03-15 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: No
Technical impact: total

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Mar 15, 2022

Scanner integrations

Scanner	Reference	Detected
Metasploit	https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/local/ms18_8120_win32k_privesc.rb	Apr 28, 2025

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

ms18_8120_win32k_privesc

metasploit · Created Unknown

Metasploit module for CVE-2018-8120

StartZYP/CVE-2018-8120

github · Created 2020-08-27 07:10:34 UTC · 0 stars

This CVE-2018-8120 File

qiantu88/CVE-2018-8120

github · Created 2018-12-19 10:58:55 UTC · 0 stars

ozkanbilge/CVE-2018-8120

github · Created 2018-08-16 10:51:00 UTC · 1 stars

CVE-2018-8120 Windows LPE exploit

EVOL4/CVE-2018-8120

github · Created 2018-07-11 02:41:16 UTC · 2 stars

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alpha1ab/CVE-2018-8120

github · Created 2018-06-07 08:30:07 UTC · 293 stars

CVE-2018-8120 Exploit for Win2003 Win2008 WinXP Win7

rip1s/CVE-2018-8120

github · Created 2018-05-19 02:43:15 UTC · 497 stars