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 would only be able to delete targeted files on a system. They would not gain privileges to view or modify file contents.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.
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
6.0.6003.22567 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035920
6.0.6003.22567 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035933
6.1.7601.27017 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035888
6.1.7601.27017 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5035919
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 7.8
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-21436 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21436
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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