$ cve CVE-2006-5758 JSON

CVE-2006-5758 EXPLOIT

7.2

HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 6.5% (pctl 94)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 through 2000 SP4 and Windows XP through SP2 maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is mapped with read-only permissions, but can be remapped by other processes as read-write, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and gain privileges by modifying the kernel structures.

Scoring

CVSS	7.2 (HIGH, v2.0)
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS	6.51% — more likely to be exploited than 94% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-119
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2006-11-06
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (2)

Vendor	Product
microsoft	windows 2000
microsoft	windows xp

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Microsoft Windows - '.ani' GDI Remote Privilege Escalation (MS07-017)	2007-04-26
exploit-db	Microsoft Windows - GDI Privilege Escalation (MS07-017) (2)	2007-04-17
exploit-db	Microsoft Windows - GDI Privilege Escalation (MS07-017) (1)	2007-04-08

References

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