CVE-2023-38146

Windows Themes Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Sep 12, 2023
Updated: Oct 30, 2025
Reserved: Jul 12, 2023

Description

Windows Themes Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows 11 version 21H2Microsoft	10.0.0 to before 10.0.22000.2416Affected
Windows 11 version 22H2Microsoft	10.0.22621.0 to before 10.0.22621.2283Affected

References

Windows Themes Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176391/Themebleed-Windows-11-Themes-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html

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