CVE-2024-21407CriticalCVSS 8.1

Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published
March 12, 2024
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-21407 →

📋 Description

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to gather information specific to the environment and take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

How would an attacker exploit this vulnerability? This vulnerability would require an authenticated attacker on a guest VM to send specially crafted file operation requests on the VM to hardware resources on the VM which could result in remote code execution on the host server.

🎯 Affected products22

  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5035849 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.17763.5576 KB5035857 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.2340 KB5035959 (SecurityHotpatchUpdate) — fixed build 10.0.20348.2333 KB5035854 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22000.2836 KB5035845 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19044.4170 KB5035853 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22621.3296 KB5035845 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19045.4170 KB5035853 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22631.3296 KB5035856 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.25398.763 KB5035858 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.10240.20526 KB5035855 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.14393.6796 KB5035930 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.2.9200.24768 KB5035885 (Monthly Rollup) — fixed build 6.3.9600.21871

🔗 References (23)