CVE-2024-49093HighCVSS 8.8

Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
December 10, 2024
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

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

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.

🎯 Affected products4

  • Windows 11 Version 24H2 for ARM64-based Systems
  • Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2025
  • Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5048667 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.26100.2605 KB5048794 (SecurityHotpatchUpdate) — fixed build 10.0.26100.2528

🔗 References (5)