CVE-2024-21324: Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
High (CVSS 7.2)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Elevation of Privilege
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2024-Apr
Released
2024-04-09
Last Updated
2024-04-11
EPSS Score
7.13% (percentile: 91.5%)

FAQ

What actions do customers need to take to protect themselves from this vulnerability? Customers need to update their Defender for IoT software to version 24.1.3 or above. For more information, see OT monitoring software versions. According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is high (PR:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? An attacker would be required to have shell access to the server. What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain access to the credentials of other users on the system.

Affected Products (1)

System Center

  • Microsoft Defender for IoT

Security Updates (1)

Acknowledgments

<a href="https://www.siemens-energy.com/">Siemens Energy</a>

Revision History

  • 2024-04-09: Information published.
  • 2024-04-11: Added an FAQ. This is an information change only.