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CVE-2023-24904 — Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS

7.1 HIGH

EPSS

0.14% (top 66.20%)

CWE

CWE-59

Published

2023-05-09T17:03:08.848Z

Last modified

2025-07-10T16:39:05.969Z

CVSS vector

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

01What is this vulnerability?

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2	6.0.6003.0
Microsoft	Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)	6.0.6003.0
Microsoft	Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2	6.0.6003.0
Microsoft	Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1	6.1.7601.0
Microsoft	Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)	6.1.7601.0

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

msrc.microsoft.com — https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-24904

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