CVE record
CVE-2021-31956
Microsoft Windows NTFS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows attackers to escalate privileges via a specially crafted application.
CVE evidence
Known exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
Severity
unknown
No parseable CVSS vector returned
Affected packages
0
Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Catalog record
- Vendor / project
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
- CISA federal remediation due date
- Nov 17, 2021
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-191, CWE-787
OSV package mapping
Affected open-source packages
OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.