CVE-2021-40450 on CISA KEV

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• portal.msrc.microsoft.com — https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-4045…

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 1809	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows Server 2019	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 1909	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 21H1	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows Server 2022	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 2004	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows Server version 2004	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows 10 Version 20H2	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows Server version 20H2	10.0.0
Microsoft	Windows 11 version 21H2	10.0.0

06Detection

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