microsoft windows-11-23h2 CVE-2024-21338 vulnerability in Microsoft Products
Published on February 13, 2024

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Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Microsoft Windows Kernel Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. 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.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by March 25, 2024: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Vulnerability Analysis


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