Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker would only be able to delete targeted files on a system. They would not gain privileges to view or modify file contents.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to no loss of confidentiality (C:N) but have major impact on integrity (I:H) and on availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
This vulnerability does not allow disclosure of any confidential information, but could allow an attacker to delete data that could include data that results in the service being unavailable.
Security updates
6.0.6003.22070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026408
6.0.6003.22070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026427
6.1.7601.26519 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026413
6.1.7601.26519 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026426
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.1
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2023-24904 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-24904
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss