Actively exploited · CISA KEV · NVD published 2010-01-21
Actively exploitedCVE-2010-0232
The kernel in Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 through Windows 7, including Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Windows Server 2008 Gold and SP2, when access to 16-bit applications is enabled on a 32-bit x86 platform, does not properly validate certain BIOS calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by crafting a VDM_TIB data structure in the Thread Environment Block (TEB), and then calling the NtVdmControl function to start the Windows Virtual DOS Machine (aka NTVDM) subsystem, leading to improperly handled exceptions involving the #GP trap handler (nt!KiTrap0D), aka "Windows Kernel Exception Handler Vulnerability."
- First PoC
- 5937 days →Metasploit
- 178 days →First cited attacker
Signals
- Exploited in the wild
- Yesadded 2022-03-03 · due 2022-03-24. An observation, not a forecast.
- EPSS · 30-day forecast
- 29%Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile of all CVEs. A forecast; KEV outranks it.
- CVSS · NVD · HIGH
- 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Internet exposure
- not stated by sourcesNo exposure census on this CVE's dispatches.
Exploits
2 known · links onlyMetasploit1
This module will create a new session with SYSTEM privileges via the KiTrap0D exploit by Tavis Ormandy. If the session in use is already elevated then the exploit will not run. The module relies on kitrap0d.x86.dll, and is not supported on x64 editions of Windows.
ruby · seen 2026-10-18
Exploit-DB1
created 2010-01-19
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