Coverage › CVE-2018-8405
CVE-2018-8405 Unmapped
Microsoft DirectX Graphics Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL)
- Description (CISA)
- An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the DirectX Graphics Kernel (DXGKRNL) driver improperly handles objects in memory.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-03-28
- Due date
- 2022-04-18
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-404
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8405
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2018-8405. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-404) — here is why — and does not guess.
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