CVE-2024-38106: Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Microsoft Windows Kernel contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation, enabling a local attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Microsoft Windows Kernel contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
- Who is affected
- Local attackers on affected Windows systems can exploit this vulnerability.
- Urgency
- Immediate remediation is necessary as the vulnerability is critical and actively exploited.
- Action
- Users should update their Windows systems to the latest version to mitigate this risk.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38106
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2024-38106Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 93% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-38106 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Microsoft Windows Kernel
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-21335: Microsoft Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP Use-After-Free Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-01-14
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-21334: Microsoft Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP Use-After-Free Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-01-14
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-21333: Microsoft Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-01-14
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-35250: Microsoft Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Untrusted Pointer Dereference Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-12-16
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-30088: Microsoft Windows Kernel TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-10-15
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-21338: Microsoft Windows Kernel Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-03-04
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