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, 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.
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
10.0.17763.5936 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039217
10.0.20348.2527 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039227
10.0.20348.2522 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039330
10.0.22000.3019 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039213
10.0.19044.4529 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039211
10.0.22621.3737 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039212
10.0.25398.950 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039236
10.0.10240.20680 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039225
10.0.14393.7070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039214
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-30068 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30068
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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