MSRC-CVE-2024-37979 — Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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.

Security updates
10.0.17763.6414 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044277
10.0.20348.2762 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044281
10.0.14393.7428 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044293
6.2.9200.25118 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044342
6.3.9600.22221 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044343

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 6.7

CVE-2024-37979

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows Server 2022 Windows

Oct 8, 2024

Revision history

2024-10-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2024-37979 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-37979
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss