CVE-2006-5586
The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 and XP SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via "invalid application window sizes" in layered application windows, aka the "GDI Invalid Window Size Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.88%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 and XP SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via "invalid application window sizes" in layered application windows, aka the "GDI Invalid Window Size Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 2.88% probability · 86th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/windows 2000 · microsoft/windows xp
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466186/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23277
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017846
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1215
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-017
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1385
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466186/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23277
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017846
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1215
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-017
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1385
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.