CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Remediation Deadline: Dec 3, 2024
High
CISA KEVRansomwareCVE-2024-49039
Microsoft—Windows
Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that can allow an attacker-provided, local application to escalate privileges outside of its AppContainer, and access privileged RPC functions.
Required Action
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49039 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49039
Vulnerability Overview
- Severity
- High
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- Ransomware
- Known
- Published
- Nov 12, 2024
- KEV Added
- Nov 12, 2024
- Due Date
- Dec 3, 2024
- Related Articles
- 0
Vendor
Microsoft
Windows