Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An administrative user must be convinced to open a malicious COM object like an .rtf file.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
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
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-21443 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21443
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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