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The severity of the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250) vulnerability has increased

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege - Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250) vulnerability has increased

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250) vulnerability has increased. This vulnerability was fixed as part of the June Microsoft Patch Tuesday. As in the case of the CVE-2024-30090 vulnerability, it was discovered by a researcher with the nickname Angelboy from DEVCORE. And it also affects the Kernel Streaming framework, and specifically its core component – the ks.sys driver. Angelboy wrote about this vulnerability in a post on August 23.

On October 13, a PoC of the exploit, released by user varwara, appeared on GitHub. The repository also contains a video demonstrating the launch of the exploit and obtaining System privileges.

Updates are available for Windows 10 and 11, and Windows Server from 2008 to 2022.

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