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 the vulnerability?
An attacker would be able to delete any system files.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.
Security updates
3.14.14.0 — https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pm860492szd?hl=en-us&gl=US
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Microsoft PC Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft PC Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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To comprehensively address CVE-2024-49051, Microsoft released security updates on December 10, 2024 for Microsoft PC Manager. Microsoft recommends that customers running this product install the updates to be fully protected from the vulnerability.
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2024-49051 Microsoft PC Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49051
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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