Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, Attack Vector is Local (AV:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker would have to have local presence on the device through malware or a malicious application to be able to exploit this vulnerability.
According to the CVSS metric, User Interaction is Required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The victim will have to close and re-open the Authenticator app for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.
According to the CVSS metric, Confidentiality and Integrity impact are High and Availability is None (C:H, I:H, A:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain access to multi-factor authentication codes for the victim's accounts, as well as modify or delete accounts in the authenticator app but not prevent the app from launching or running.
Security updates
6.2401.0617 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/fundamentals/whats-new
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.1
Microsoft Authenticator Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Authenticator Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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References
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CVE-2024-21390 Microsoft Authenticator Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21390
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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