CVE-2024-21338

Microsoft Windows Kernel Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control Vulnerability
62.2%
EPSS
99%
Percentile
Yes
Known exploited
0
APAC news · 90d
Summary

Microsoft Windows Kernel contains an exposed IOCTL with insufficient access control vulnerability within the IOCTL (input and output control) dispatcher in appid.sys that allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation.

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows
Added to KEV
Mar 4, 2024
Remediation due
Mar 25, 2024 (US federal deadline)
Ransomware use
Known
Weakness
CWE-822
EPSS
62.2% as of Nov 12
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Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
  • none recorded