CVE-2024-43529HighCVSS 7.3

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
October 8, 2024
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-43529 →

📋 Description

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? A user with low privileges would need to initiate an RPC call to the print spooler which runs as SYSTEM.

🎯 Affected products17

  • Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 22H2 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 24H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5044281 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.2762 KB5044280 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22000.3260 KB5044273 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19044.5011 KB5044285 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22621.4317 KB5044273 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.19045.5011 KB5044285 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.22631.4317 KB5044288 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.25398.1189 KB5044284 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.26100.2033

🔗 References (13)