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CVE-2024-43452

Windows Registry Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

HIGH 7.5EPSS 30.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 30.2%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Windows Registry Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
30.15% probability · 98th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-367
Affected
microsoft/windows 10 1809 · microsoft/windows 10 21h2 · microsoft/windows 10 22h2 · microsoft/windows 11 22h2 · microsoft/windows 11 23h2 · microsoft/windows 11 24h2 · microsoft/windows server 2008 · microsoft/windows server 2019 · microsoft/windows server 2022 · microsoft/windows server 2022 23h2 · microsoft/windows server 2025
Source
secure@microsoft.com
EPSS trend
0%18%35%21 October 2026: 30.15%3 November 2026: 30.15%21 October 20263 November 2026

EPSS moved from 30.2% on 21 October 2026 to 30.2% on 3 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.