Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What actions do customers need to take to protect themselves from this vulnerability?
Customers need to update their Defender for IoT software to version 24.1.3 or above. For more information, see OT monitoring software versions.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is high (PR:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker would be required to have shell access to the server.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain access to the credentials of other users on the system.
Security updates
24.1.3 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-iot/organizations/release-notes#versions-241x
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.2
Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Added an FAQ. This is an information change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2024-21324 Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21324
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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