Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor in Windows Win32K allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially read small portions of heap memory. According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L),but lead to no loss of availability (A:N) and integrity (I:N)? What does that mean for this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view some sensitive information (Confidentiality) but not all resources within the impacted component may be divulged to the attacker. The attacker cannot make changes to disclosed information (Integrity) or limit access to the resource (Availability).
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/boolgombear/">Minjea Park</a> with <a href="https://stealien.com/main">Stealien</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/crowdstrike">CrowdStrike Advanced Research Team</a> with <a href="https://www.crowdstrike.com/">CrowdStrike</a>