CVE-2021-43880 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Windows Mobile Device Management Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published: 2021-12-15

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Microsoft

Windows 11 version 21H2

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`10.0.0`	affected	< 10.0.22000.376

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11:-::::::arm64:
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11:-::::::x64:

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-30742	Windows Mobile Device Management Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00237.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-43880

History

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Microsoft Windows 11 Windows 11 21h2

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2021-12-15T14:15:32.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:10:17.130Z

Reserved: 2021-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-43880

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:10:17.130Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-15T15:15:10.993

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:29:58.817

Link: CVE-2021-43880

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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