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CVE-2024-21338

Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS 7.8 (HIGH) KEV: KNOWN CATALOG

Attention and evidence

HYPE SCORE
0.0/10
REALITY · THREAT PRIORITY
8.5/10
General review priority; not probability

Evidence confidence: Exploitation recorded

Why this priority?
  • Recorded exploitation baseline: +7.00
  • Technical severity: CVSS 7.8: +1.17
  • Fresh EPSS: 59.81%: +0.30

General review priority, not probability, victim count or asset-specific risk. A range covers missing CVSS/EPSS inputs within the current evidence state.

Sources: 11 documents and public datasets.

Hype components

Headline sample (25%)
0/100
Press, 30 days (60%)
0/100
Grounded branding (15%)
0/100
HYPE TOTAL0/100

Sources and documents

SC Media
Press · 14 Aug 2026, 07:00 · DPRK’s Lazarus Group exploits Windows zero-day in backdoor campaign - SC Media
The Hacker News
Press · 29 Apr 2025, 07:00 · Google Reports 75 Zero-Days Exploited in 2024 — 44% Targeted Enterprise Security Products - The Hacker News
SOCRadar
Press · 29 Jan 2025, 08:00 · Top 10 Exploited Vulnerabilities of 2024 - SOCRadar
www.gendigital.com
Press · 19 Sep 2024, 07:00 · Evolution of Lazarus ‘FudModule - no longer (stand)alone’ - www.gendigital.com
The Hacker News
Press · 31 Aug 2024, 07:00 · North Korean Hackers Deploy FudModule Rootkit via Chrome Zero-Day Exploit - The Hacker News
See all 11 source documents
Microsoft
Press · 30 Aug 2024, 07:00 · North Korean threat actor Citrine Sleet exploiting Chromium zero-day - Microsoft
The Hacker News
Press · 19 Aug 2024, 07:00 · Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by North Korea’s Lazarus Group - The Hacker News
TechTarget
Press · 12 Mar 2024, 07:00 · March Patch Tuesday fixes critical Hyper-V vulnerabilities - TechTarget
The Hacker News
Press · 29 Feb 2024, 08:00 · Lazarus Hackers Exploited Windows Kernel Flaw as Zero-Day in Recent Attacks - The Hacker News
www.gendigital.com
Press · 28 Feb 2024, 08:00 · Lazarus and the FudModule Rootkit: Beyond BYOVD with an Admin-to-Kernel Zero-Day - www.gendigital.com
Sophos
Press · 14 Feb 2024, 08:00 · February’s Patch Tuesday treats customers to 72 patches - Sophos

Score evolution

● Hype   ● Reality

Earlier evidence-support scores are retained in history; this chart shows only the current priority definition.

First record: hype 0.0 · reality 8.5 (2026-11-02 15:13). The curve appears once the score changes.

Public exploit evidence

2

Public exploit entries / repo candidates

See 2 repos with metrics
RepositoryStarsForksLanguageUpdated
tykawaii98/CVE-2024-21338_PoC4012C++23 Jun 2024, 06:09
wusijie/CVE-2024-21338-127C05 May 2024, 14:30
Public exploit evidence
Evidence context and dated references

Reality is general threat/review priority, combining observed exploitation, CVSS severity and fresh EPSS. Evidence confidence is separate. This is not calibrated risk, a victim count or an asset-specific assessment. A range reflects missing numeric inputs.

Evidence in context

Confidence in exploitation evidence
Exploitation recorded
Priority basis
Recorded exploitation; CVSS 7.8; EPSS 59.8%
Attention, last 30 days
0 distinct story titles; 0 press documents; 0 publisher domains.
Technical potential
local access, low privileges, no user interaction.
Observed activity
Exploitation recorded in CISA KEV.
Known scale
Not quantified.
Evidence confidence basis
Trusted exploitation confirmation

Score evaluated: 2026-11-05 13:59:08.088796+00:00 · EPSS snapshot: 2026-11-05T12:03:04Z

Source event timeline
Published
13 Feb 2024, 18:02
First press mention
14 Feb 2024, 08:00
Added to the CISA KEV catalog
04 Mar 2024, 00:00
Latest press mention
14 Aug 2026, 07:00
Score calculated
05 Nov 2026, 13:59
PoCs on GitHub
2 repositories
Source: CVE List V5 · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · GitHub · RSSVulnRadar