CVE-2024-21338
KEV · RansomwareMicrosoft Windows Kernel Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control Vulnerability
View CVE record →- Vendor / Project
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Date added
- Mar 4, 2024
- Due date
- Mar 25, 2024
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWEs
- CWE-822
Description
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
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.