Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges from a Low Integrity Level in a contained ("sandboxed") execution environment to a Medium Integrity Level or a High Integrity Level.
Please refer to AppContainer isolation and Mandatory Integrity Control for more information.
According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.
Security updates
10.0.17763.6054 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040430
10.0.20348.2582 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040437
10.0.22000.3079 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040431
10.0.19044.4651 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040427
10.0.22621.3880 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040442
10.0.25398.1009 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040438
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Text Services Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Text Services Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-21417 Windows Text Services Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21417
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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