CVE-2023-24927
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedMicrosoft PostScript and PCL6 Class Printer Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisA resource is accessed as one type when it was actually allocated as another, so the code misreads memory layout — in interpreters and language runtimes this is frequently a direct path to code execution. It often arises from unchecked casts on attacker-influenced objects. The fix is strict type checks before casts and memory-safe access patterns.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data< 10.0.10240.19869< 10.0.14393.5850< 10.0.17763.4252< 10.0.19042.2846< 10.0.19044.2846< 10.0.19045.2846< 10.0.22000.1817< 10.0.22621.1555CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped10.0.10240.1986910.0.14393.585010.0.17763.4252
Windows 10 1507: 10.0.10240.19869 or later | Windows 10 1607: 10.0.14393.5850 or later | Windows 10 1809: 10.0.17763.4252 or later | Windows 10 20h2: 10.0.19042.2846 or later | Windows 10 21h2: 10.0.19044.2846 or later | Windows 10 22h2: 10.0.19045.2846 or later | Windows 11 21h2: 10.0.22000.1817 or
- Open Settings on the Windows machine
- Navigate to Update & Security > Windows Update
- Click 'Check for updates' to download and install the latest security updates
- Ensure the update containing the fix for CVE-2023-24927 is installed - this is part of the monthly security update rollup
- Restart the computer when prompted to complete the installation
- Alternatively, manually download the specific security update from the Microsoft Update Catalog for your Windows version
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-24927 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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