CVE-2024-6769

Medium to High Integrity Privilege Escalation in Microsoft Windows

HIGH 8.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.08 % · percentile 65 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Fortra
NVD status
Deferred

Description

A DLL Hijacking caused by drive remapping combined with a poisoning of the activation cache in Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022 allows a malicious authenticated attacker to elevate from a medium integrity process to a high integrity process without the intervention of a UAC prompt.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path
  • CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NFortra
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HFortra
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · df4dee71-de3a-4139-9588-11b62fe6c0ff (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · df4dee71-de3a-4139-9588-11b62fe6c0ff (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Windows 10affected 10.0.0
Microsoft · Windows 11affected 10.0.0
Microsoft · Windows Server 2016affected 10.0.0
Microsoft · Windows Server 2019affected 10.0.0
Microsoft · Windows Server 2022affected 10.0.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD