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CVE-2024-6769: Medium to High Integrity Privilege Escalation in Microsoft Windows

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

A DLL Hijacking caused by drive remapping combined with a poisoning of the activation cache in Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022 allows a malicious authenticated attacker to elevate from a medium integrity process to a high integrity process without the intervention of a UAC prompt.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows 11 version 21H2: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows Server 2022: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows 11 version 21H2: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: 10.0.0
• Microsoft Windows Server 2022: 10.0.0

References

• https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/research/fr-2024-002
• https://github.com/fortra/CVE-2024-6769

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