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, the attack vector is physical (AV:P). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker needs physical access to the victim's machine.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker can use a specially crafted IMC.hiv file (with the registry configuration that needs to be changed), which could lead to elevation of privilege.
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
10.0.17763.6189 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041578
10.0.20348.2655 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041160
10.0.22000.3147 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041592
10.0.19044.4780 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041580
10.0.22621.4037 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041585
10.0.25398.1085 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041573
10.0.26100.1457 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041571
10.0.10240.20751 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041782
10.0.14393.7259 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041773
6.3.9600.22134 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041828
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.8
Windows Initial Machine Configuration Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Initial Machine Configuration Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-38223 Windows Initial Machine Configuration Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38223
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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