CVE-2023-31096

Description

MITRE: CVE-2023-31096 Windows Agere Soft Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. Microsoft is aware of vulnerabilities in the third party Agere Soft Modem drivers that ship natively with supported Windows operating systems. This is an announcement of the removal of agrsm64.sys and agrsm.sys drivers. The drivers have been removed in the January 2026 cumulative update. Soft modem hardware dependent on these specific drivers will no longer work on Windows. Microsoft recommends removing any existing dependencies on this hardware. This vulnerability was documented in 2023 via a CVE-2023-31096 issued by MITRE.

Affected Products

• ▸Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems
• ▸Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
• ▸Windows Server 2019
• ▸Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)

CVSS Vector