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Critical MSRC-CVE-2024-21407 1 CVE

Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Mar 12, 2024 · Updated Mar 12, 2024

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less 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 gather information specific to the environment and take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

How would an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
This vulnerability would require an authenticated attacker on a guest VM to send specially crafted file operation requests on the VM to hardware resources on the VM which could result in remote code execution on the host server.

Security updates
10.0.17763.5576 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035849
10.0.20348.2340 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035857
10.0.20348.2333 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035959
10.0.22000.2836 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035854
10.0.19044.4170 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035845
10.0.22621.3296 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035853
10.0.25398.763 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035856
10.0.10240.20526 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035858
10.0.14393.6796 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035855
6.2.9200.24768 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035930
6.3.9600.21871 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035885

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