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CVE-2021-24092
Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
High7.8EPSS 0.61%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.61% · top 50% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Elevation of Privilege
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft Endpoint Protection
- affected N/A
Microsoft · Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection
- affected N/A
Microsoft · Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Endpoint Protection
- affected N/A
Microsoft · Microsoft Security Essentials
- affected N/A
Microsoft · Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection
- affected N/A
- affected N/A
References (1)
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-24092 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2021-24092)Record last updated .