MSRC-CVE-2024-20681 — Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

Security updates
10.0.20348.2227 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034129
10.0.22000.2713 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034121
10.0.19044.3930 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034122
10.0.22621.3007 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034123
10.0.25398.643 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034130

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2024-20681

Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Windows 10 Version 21H2 Windows 10 Version 22H2 Windows

Jan 9, 2024

Revision history

2024-01-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2024-20681 Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20681
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