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High MSRC-CVE-2024-38033 1 CVE

PowerShell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Jul 9, 2024 · Updated Dec 10, 2024 · Revision 2

Vendor: Microsoft

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) and privileges required  is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker with standard user privileges could place a malicious file and then wait for the privileged victim to run the calling command.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

Security updates
10.0.17763.6054 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040430
10.0.20348.2582 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040437
10.0.22000.3079 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040431
10.0.19044.4651 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040427
10.0.22621.3880 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040442
10.0.25398.1009 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040438
10.0.10240.20710 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040448
10.0.14393.7159 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040434
6.2.9200.25222 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5048699
6.3.9600.22318 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5048735

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    To comprehensively address CVE-2024-38033, Microsoft released security updates on December 10, 2024 for all affected versions of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Microsoft recommends that customers running any of these products install the updates to be fully protected from the vulnerability. Customers whose systems are configured to receive automatic updates do not need to take any further action.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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