CVE-2024-49039

CISA KEV RANSOMWARE
ACT NOW Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 3/100
Published: N/A Modified: N/A First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: pending_score

Description

Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that can allow an attacker-provided, local application to escalate privileges outside of its AppContainer, and access privileged RPC functions.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Vendor / Product Microsoft — Windows
Date Added 2024-11-12
Remediation Due 2024-12-03
Ransomware Use CONFIRMED
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49039 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49039

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (23)

VendorProductVersion
microsoft windows_10_1507 < 10.0.10240.20826
microsoft windows_10_1507 < 10.0.10240.20826
microsoft windows_10_1607 < 10.0.14393.7515
microsoft windows_10_1607 < 10.0.14393.7515
microsoft windows_10_1809 < 10.0.17763.6532
microsoft windows_10_1809 < 10.0.17763.6532
microsoft windows_10_21h2 < 10.0.19044.5131
microsoft windows_10_21h2 < 10.0.19044.5131
microsoft windows_10_21h2 < 10.0.19044.5131
microsoft windows_10_22h2 < 10.0.19045.5131
microsoft windows_10_22h2 < 10.0.19045.5131
microsoft windows_10_22h2 < 10.0.19045.5131
microsoft windows_11_22h2 < 10.0.22621.4460
microsoft windows_11_22h2 < 10.0.22621.4460
microsoft windows_11_23h2 < 10.0.22631.4460
microsoft windows_11_23h2 < 10.0.22631.4460
microsoft windows_11_24h2 < 10.0.26100.2314
microsoft windows_11_24h2 < 10.0.26100.2314
microsoft windows_server_2016 < 10.0.14393.7515
microsoft windows_server_2019 < 10.0.17763.6532
microsoft windows_server_2022 < 10.0.20348.2849
microsoft windows_server_2022_23h2 < 10.0.25398.1251
microsoft windows_server_2025 < 10.0.26100.2314

Bug Bounty Relevance

3 / 100
✓ Known exploited (KEV)

CVSS Score

Unscored

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

14.18%
Raw Score 0.141790
Percentile 96.6%
Date 2026-10-28

Intelligence Sources

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