CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-36966
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-10
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 10 20h2
• microsoft windows 10 21h1
• microsoft windows 10 1809
• microsoft windows 10 1909
• microsoft windows 10 2004
• microsoft windows server 2016 20h2
• microsoft windows server 2016 2004
• microsoft windows server 2019
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36966 msrc.microsoft.com
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-36966 Patch, Vendor Advisory