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.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
A user with low privileges would need to initiate an RPC call to the print spooler which runs as SYSTEM.
Security updates
10.0.20348.2762 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044281
10.0.22000.3260 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044280
10.0.19044.5011 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044273
10.0.22621.4317 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044285
10.0.25398.1189 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044288
10.0.26100.2033 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044284
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Updated acknowledgment. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2024-43529 Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43529
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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