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
High
CISA KEVRansomwareCVE-2024-21338
Microsoft—Windows
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.
Required Action
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21338; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21338
Vulnerability Overview
- Severity
- High
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- Ransomware
- Known
- Published
- Mar 4, 2024
- KEV Added
- Mar 4, 2024
- Due Date
- Mar 25, 2024
- Related Articles
- 0
Vendor
Microsoft
Windows