Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
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
10.0.17763.5458 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034768
10.0.20348.2322 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034770
10.0.22000.2777 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034766
10.0.19044.4046 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034763
10.0.22621.3155 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034765
10.0.25398.709 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034769
10.0.10240.20469 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034774
10.0.14393.6709 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034767
6.2.9200.24710 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034830
6.3.9600.21813 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034819
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0CVE-2024-21371 EPSS 11%
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Added an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2024-21371 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21371
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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