MSRC-CVE-2023-24949 — Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

Security updates
10.0.17763.4377 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026362
10.0.20348.1726 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026370
10.0.20348.1724 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026456
10.0.19042.2965 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026361
10.0.22000.1936 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026368
10.0.22621.1702 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026372

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2023-24949 EPSS 25%

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows 10 Version 1809 Windows

May 9, 2023

Revision history

2023-05-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-24949 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-24949
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss