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CVE-2024-21302

Summary: As of July 8, 2025 Microsoft has completed mitigations to address this vulnerability. See KB5042562: Guidance for blocking rollback of virtualization-based security related updates and the Recommended Actions section of this CVE for guidance on how to protect your systems from this vulnerability. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows based systems supporting Virtualization Based Security (VBS), including a subset of Azure Virtual Machine SKUS. This vulnerability enables an attacker with administrator privileges to replace current versions of Windows system files with outdated versions. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker could reintroduce previously mitigated vulnerabilities, circumvent some features of VBS, and exfiltrate data protected by VBS. Update: July 10, 2025 Microsoft has addressed this vulnerability for Windows 10 1507, Windows 10, version 1607, Windows 10, version 1809, and Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2018. This ensures that mitigations are available to protect all supported versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 from this vulnerability. See the available mitigations and deployment guidelines described in KB5042562: Guidance for blocking rollback of virtualization-based security related updates. Update: August 13, 2024 Microsoft has released the August 2024 security updates that include an opt-in revocation policy mitigation to address this vulnerability. Customers running affected versions of Windows are encouraged to review KB5042562: Guidance for blocking rollback of virtualization-based security related updates to assess if this opt-in policy meets the needs of their environment before implementing this mitigation. There are risks associated with this mitigation that should be understood prior to applying it to your systems. Detailed information about these risks is also available in KB5042562. Details: A security researcher informed Microsoft of an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, and higher based systems including Azure Virtual Machines (VM) that support VBS. For more information on Windows versions and VM SKUs supporting VBS, reference: Virtualization-based Security (VBS) | Microsoft Learn. The vulnerability enables an attacker with administrator privileges on the target system to replace current Windows system files with outdated versions. Successful... See more at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21302

Published

2024-08-08T02:15:37.827

Last Modified

2025-07-10T17:15:38.117

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.7 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-284
  • Type: Primary
    NVD-CWE-Other
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System microsoft windows_10_1507 < 10.0.10240.20710 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_10_1507 < 10.0.10240.20710 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_10_1607 < 10.0.14393.7259 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_10_1607 < 10.0.14393.7259 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_10_1809 < 10.0.17763.6189 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_10_21h2 < 10.0.19044.4780 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_10_22h2 < 10.0.19045.4780 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_11_21h2 < 10.0.22000.3147 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_11_22h2 < 10.0.22621.4037 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_11_23h2 < 10.0.22631.4037 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_11_24h2 < 10.0.26100.1457 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_11_24h2 < 10.0.26100.1457 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_server_2016 < 10.0.14393.7259 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_server_2019 < 10.0.17763.6189 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_server_2022 < 10.0.20348.2655 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_server_2022_23h2 < 10.0.25398.1085 Yes
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