Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-43570

Medium

Published: 08 October 2024

Published
08 October 2024
Modified
16 October 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-43570 is a medium-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 21H2. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20796 · ≤ 10.0.10240.20796
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.7428 · ≤ 10.0.14393.7428
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.6414 · ≤ 10.0.17763.6414
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.5011 · ≤ 10.0.19044.5011 · ≤ 10.0.19044.5011
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.5011 · ≤ 10.0.19045.5011 · ≤ 10.0.19045.5011
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
≤ 10.0.22000.3260 · ≤ 10.0.22000.3260
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4317 · ≤ 10.0.22621.4317
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4317 · ≤ 10.0.22631.4317
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.2033 · ≤ 10.0.26100.2033
microsoft
windows server 2008
all versions, r2
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References