Windows Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-49039 Published on November 12, 2024

Windows Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. 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.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by December 3, 2024: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2024-49039 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 2.0 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.


Products Associated with CVE-2024-49039

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Microsoft Windows
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2025
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2019
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2022
 
Microsoft Windows 11
 
Microsoft Windows 10
 
Microsoft Windows 11 23h2
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 23h2
 
Microsoft Windows 11 24h2
 
Microsoft Windows 10 1507
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
 

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