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High MSRC-CVE-2024-21417 1 CVE

Windows Text Services Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Jul 9, 2024 · Updated Jul 9, 2024

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

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