CVE-2024-6769

Medium to High Integrity Privilege Escalation in Microsoft Windows

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Sep 26, 2024
Updated: Aug 29, 2025
Reserved: Jul 15, 2024

Description

A DLL Hijacking caused by drive remapping combined with a poisoning of the activation cache in Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022 allows a malicious authenticated attacker to elevate from a medium integrity process to a high integrity process without the intervention of a UAC prompt.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.4 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	Fortra
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Fortra

Weaknesses

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path
CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows 10Microsoft	10.0.0Affected
Windows 11Microsoft	10.0.0Affected
Windows Server 2016Microsoft	10.0.0Affected
Windows Server 2019Microsoft	10.0.0Affected
Windows Server 2022Microsoft	10.0.0Affected

References

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