CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Remediation Deadline: Mar 25, 2024
Description
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.
EPSS — Exploit Probability
78.1%
Higher than 99.0% of all CVEs
Required Action
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21338; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21338
Risk Assessment
CRITICALIn CISA KEV
High EPSS
Ransomware
Details
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 78.1%
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- Ransomware
- Known
- Articles
- 0
Timeline
Published
Mar 4, 2024
Added to KEV
Mar 4, 2024
Remediation Due
Mar 25, 2024