Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-21442

High

Published: 12 March 2024

Published
12 March 2024
Modified
07 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0043 63.0th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-21442 is a high-severity Improper Null Termination (CWE-170) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 21H2. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 37.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows USB Print Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CWE(s)
CWE-170NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.4170
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.4170
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
≤ 10.0.22000.2836
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.3296
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.3296
microsoft
windows server 2022
≤ 10.0.20348.2340
microsoft
windows server 2022 23h2
≤ 10.0.25398.763

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References