CVE-2021-36945

Windows 10 Update Assistant Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Aug 12, 2021
Updated: Aug 10, 2026
Reserved: Jul 19, 2021

Description

Windows 10 Update Assistant Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows Update AssistantMicrosoft	10.0.0 to before publicationAffected

References

Windows 10 Update Assistant Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-36945

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