Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-49046

High

Published: 12 November 2024

Published
12 November 2024
Modified
18 November 2024
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 0.0024 48.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-49046 is a high-severity Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (CWE-367) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 21H2. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CWE(s)
CWE-367NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20826 · ≤ 10.0.10240.20826
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.7515 · ≤ 10.0.14393.7515
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.6532 · ≤ 10.0.17763.6532
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.5131 · ≤ 10.0.19044.5131 · ≤ 10.0.19044.5131
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.5131 · ≤ 10.0.19045.5131 · ≤ 10.0.19045.5131
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4460 · ≤ 10.0.22621.4460
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4460 · ≤ 10.0.22631.4460
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.2314 · ≤ 10.0.26100.2314
microsoft
windows server 2008
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2012
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.

AU-8 Time Stamps
addresses: CWE-367

Timestamps meeting UTC or offset standards help identify TOCTOU issues through precise chronological reconstruction of check/use operations.

References