HIGHCVSS 7.8Actively exploited · CISA KEV since 2024-03-04Vulnerability

CVE-2024-21338

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.

Properties

Euvd product
Windows Server 2022, Windows 10 Version 1809, Windows 11 version 21H2, Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation), Windows 11 Version 23H2, Windows Server 2019, Windows 10 Version 21H2, Windows 11 version 22H2, Windows 10 Version 22H2, Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation), Windows 11 version 22H3
Vulnerability name
Microsoft Windows Kernel Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control Vulnerability
First seen
2026-08-10T17:52:20+00:00
Cvss score
7.8
Epss score
0.5981
Last seen
2026-10-19T12:00:27+00:00
Due date
2024-03-25
Euvd assigner
microsoft
Retrieved at
2026-10-21T01:24:47+00:00
Exploited euvd since
2024-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
Src batch id
epss_history-20261020T103617Z-728ddd
Source url
https://epss.empiricalsecurity.com/epss_scores-2026-10-19.csv.gz
Date added
2024-03-04
Euvd base score version
3.1
Score
7.8
Fetched at
2026-10-20T10:36:20+00:00
Euvd vendor
Microsoft
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
In Signal since
initial import (Sep 2026)
Euvd base score
7.8

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