CVE-2024-36056 Privilege escalation in n/a
Unprivileged users can escalate to SYSTEM privileges by mapping physical memory via a vulnerable Windows driver IOCTL.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-36056?
CVE-2024-36056 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Hw64.sys in Marvin Test HW.exe before 5.0.5.0 allows unprivileged user-mode processes to arbitrarily map physical memory via IOCTL 0x9c406490 (for IoAllocateMdl, MmBuildMdlForNonPagedPool, and MmMapLockedPages), leading to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privilege escalation.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36056?
How do I fix CVE-2024-36056?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-36056 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-36056 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36056 in the wild and no public exploit code.