CVE-2024-6769
Medium to High Integrity Privilege Escalation in Microsoft Windows
- Published
- Sep 26, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 29, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- Fortra
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 63.2%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1Technical writeup and PoC for CVE-2024-6769, chaining DLL hijacking with activation cache poisoning to escalate from medium to high integrity on Windows systems.
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