Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
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
10.0.26100.2605 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5048667
10.0.26100.2528 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5048794
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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References
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CVE-2024-49093 Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49093
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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