CVE tracker / CVE-2024-37979
CVE-2024-37979
CVE-2024-37979 is the Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. Microsoft rates it Important, CVSS 9.0. It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Published October 8, 2024.
Risk summary
CriticalElevation of Privilege
9.0
CVSS v3 base
0.6%
EPSS: chance of exploitation in 30 days
Critical
Severity
Important
Microsoft's rating
Less Likely
Microsoft: exploitation
No
In CISA KEV
How to fix it
Microsoft lists 10 affected products and the update that fixes each:
- KB5044277 · fixed build 10.0.17763.6414
Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2019 - KB5044281 · fixed build 10.0.20348.2762
Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2022 - KB5044293 · fixed build 10.0.14393.7428
Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2016 - KB5044342 · fixed build 6.2.9200.25118
Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2012 - KB5044343 · fixed build 6.3.9600.22221
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2012 R2
What Microsoft changed
- October 8, 2024: Information published.
Details
- Weakness
- CWE-822: Untrusted Pointer Dereference
- Publicly disclosed (Microsoft)
- No
- Exploited (Microsoft)
- No
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- Not listed
- Published
- October 8, 2024
- Last revised
- October 8, 2024
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References
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