MSRC-CVE-2024-38186 — Windows Kernel-Mode Driver 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
10.0.17763.6054 — 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
10.0.14393.7159 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040434

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2024-38186

Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows 10 Version 1809 Windows

Aug 13, 2024

Revision history

2024-08-13 #1
Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in July 2024, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the July 2024 Security Updates. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already installed the July 2024 updates do not need to take any further action.

References

CVE-2024-38186 Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38186
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