MSRC-CVE-2024-43640 — 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
10.0.20348.2849 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5046616
10.0.20348.2819 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5046698
10.0.19044.5131 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5046613
10.0.22621.4460 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5046633

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2024-43640

Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Windows 10 Version 21H2 Windows 10 Version 22H2 Windows

Nov 12, 2024

Revision history

2024-11-12 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2024-43640 Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43640
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