MSRC-CVE-2024-20686 — Win32k 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
10.0.25398.643 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034130

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2024-20686

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation) Windows

Jan 9, 2024

Revision history

2024-01-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2024-20686 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20686
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