Overview

Microsoft’s December 2023 Patch Tuesday includes 33 vulnerabilities, 10 of which are Elevation of Privilege. The vulnerabilities can be classified into the following categories:

• 10 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities
• 8 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
• 5 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
• 5 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
• 5 Spoofing Vulnerabilities

December Vulnerabilities by Impact

SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team has analyzed and addressed Microsoft’s security advisories for the month of December 2023 and has produced coverage for seven of the reported vulnerabilities.

Vulnerabilities with detections

CVE-2023-35631   Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
ASPY 512 Exploit-exe exe.MP_353
CVE-2023-35632   Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
ASPY 518 Exploit-exe exe.MP_359
CVE-2023-35633   Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
ASPY 513 Exploit-exe exe.MP_354
CVE-2023-35644   Windows Sysmain Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
ASPY 514 Exploit-exe exe.MP_355
CVE-2023-36005   Windows Telephony Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
ASPY 515 Exploit-exe exe.MP_356
CVE-2023-36391   Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
ASPY 516 Exploit-exe exe.MP_357
CVE-2023-36696   Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
ASPY 517 Exploit-exe exe.MP_358

Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-21740   Windows Media Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35628   Windows MSHTML Platform Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35629   Microsoft USBHUB 3.0 Device Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35630   Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35634   Windows Bluetooth Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35639   Microsoft ODBC Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35641   Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36006   Microsoft WDAC OLE DB provider for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-35624   Azure Connected Machine Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35631   Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35632   Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35633   Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35644   Windows Sysmain Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36003   XAML Diagnostics Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36005   Windows Telephony Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36011   Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36391   Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36696   Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-35621   Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35635   Windows Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35638   DHCP Server Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35642   Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36010   Microsoft Defender Denial of Service Vulnerability

Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-35625   Azure Machine Learning Compute Instance for SDK Users Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35636   Microsoft Outlook Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35643   DHCP Server Service Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36009   Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36012   DHCP Server Service Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Spoofing Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-35619   Microsoft Outlook for Mac Spoofing Vulnerability
CVE-2023-35622   Windows DNS Spoofing Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36004   Windows DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) Spoofing Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36019   Microsoft Power Platform Connector Spoofing Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36020   Microsoft Dynamics 365 (on-premises) Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability