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High MSRC-CVE-2024-38239 1 CVE

Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Sep 10, 2024 · Updated Sep 10, 2024

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

Windows 11, version 24H2 is not generally available yet. Why are there updates for this version of Windows listed in the Security Updates table?
The new Copilot+ devices that are now publicly available come with Windows 11, version 24H2 installed. Customers with these devices need to know about any vulnerabilities that affect their machine and to install the updates if they are not receiving automatic updates. Note that the general availability date for Windows 11, version 24H2 is scheduled for later this year.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires the attacker to have control over a domain controller and privileges to perform arbitrary code execution in a different trusted forest from the trusted forest containing the victim machine.

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

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is high (PR:H). What privileges are required to exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker needs to have privileges on the environment from where they are performing the attack and the environment they are targeting to be able to exploit this vulnerability.

Security updates
10.0.17763.6293 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043050
10.0.20348.2700 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5042881
10.0.20348.2695 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5042880
10.0.22000.3197 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043067
10.0.19044.4894 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043064
10.0.22621.4169 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043076
10.0.25398.1128 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043055
10.0.26100.1742 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043080
10.0.10240.20766 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043083
10.0.14393.7336 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043051
6.0.6003.22870 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043135
6.0.6003.22870 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043087
6.1.7601.27320 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043129
6.1.7601.27320 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043092
6.2.9200.25073 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043125
6.3.9600.22175 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043138

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