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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
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.
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
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2024-21432 Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21432
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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