CVE-2024-26238 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Microsoft PLUGScheduler Scheduled Task Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Microsoft	Windows 10 21h2 Windows 10 22h2

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:::::::x64:*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:::::::x86:*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:::::::x64:*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:::::::x86:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26238

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00656}`	epss `{'score': 0.00674}`

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Microsoft Microsoft windows 10 21h2 Microsoft windows 10 22h2
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:::::::x64:* cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:::::::x86:* cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:::::::x64:* cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:::::::x86:*
Vendors & Products		Microsoft Microsoft windows 10 21h2 Microsoft windows 10 22h2

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21H2:10.0.19044.4412::::::x64: cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21H2:10.0.19044.4412::::::x86: cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22H2:10.0.19045.4412::::::x64: cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22H2:10.0.19045.4412::::::x86:
Vendors & Products	Microsoft Microsoft windows 10 21h2 Microsoft windows 10 22h2
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2024-05-14T16:57:18.155Z

Updated: 2025-05-03T00:06:37.130Z

Reserved: 2024-02-15T00:57:49.358Z

Link: CVE-2024-26238

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:07:18.939Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-14T17:15:50.627

Modified: 2025-01-16T16:46:01.327

Link: CVE-2024-26238

Redhat

No data.

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