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High MSRC-CVE-2024-21390 1 CVE

Microsoft Authenticator Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Mar 12, 2024 · Updated Mar 12, 2024

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

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