CVE-2024-6769

8.4 highEPSS 1.1%

High (8.4). EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A DLL Hijacking caused by drive remapping combined with a poisoning of the activation cache in Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022 allows a malicious authenticated attacker to elevate from a medium integrity process to a high integrity process without the intervention of a UAC prompt.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.4 high

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

6.7 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-426, CWE-427
Published: 2024-09-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/research/fr-2024-002
https://github.com/fortra/CVE-2024-6769

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