MSRC compact vulnerability detail

CVE-2024-49039 · Windows Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Severity
Important
Impact
Elevation of Privilege
CVSS
8.8 base · 8.2 temporal
Release
2024-11-12
Signals
Windows Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Exploited: Yes Publicly disclosed: No Exploitability: Exploitation Detected
CWE
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Description
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FAQ
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker would need to run a specially crafted application on the target system exploit the vulnerability to elevate their privileges to a Medium Integrity Level.
FAQ
According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability? In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.
FAQ
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute RPC functions that are restricted to privileged accounts only.