CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-38634

HighCVSS 7.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.83%

54th percentile - higher than 54% of all known CVEs

Summary

Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in Windows Update Client. Allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could escalate privileges and take control of the system, potentially leading to full compromise.

Recommendation

Install Windows security updates released by Microsoft.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Microsoft Windows Update Client Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS