MSRC-CVE-2024-20698 — 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
10.0.17763.5329 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034127
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-2024-20698 Public exploit

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

Jan 9, 2024

Revision history

2024-01-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2024-20698 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20698
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