Vulnerability · CVE-2024-21410
Microsoft Exchange Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Published Feb 13, 2024 · catalog updated Jun 17, 2026 · Microsoft Exchange Server
Patch now
CVE-2024-21410 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Mar 7, 2024. Confirm Microsoft Exchange Server against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Gaps on this record
- No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
- Severity
- Critical9.8
- Known exploitation
- CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 12.56%
- Remediation
- Remediation guidance
- Affected products
- cpe microsoft/exchange server · vendor Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
Are you affected?
Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.
The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.
- cpe microsoft/exchange server2016
- cpe microsoft/exchange server2019
- vendor Microsoft Exchange Serverversion unspecified
How to fix CVE-2024-21410
Recommended remediation
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. CISA due date Mar 7, 2024.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2024-21410 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Mar 7, 2024. Confirm Microsoft Exchange Server against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with microsoft/exchange server 2016; microsoft/exchange server 2019. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
What should an analyst verify?
CWE-287: Improper Authentication. EPSS 12.56%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.
No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Feb 13, 2024 · Catalog
Detected
Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
Feb 15, 2024 · CISA KEV
Known exploited
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Mar 7, 2024 · CISA KEV
Remediation due
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Jun 17, 2026 · Catalog
Updated
Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
Sources
- CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2024-21410
Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
cisa.gov - CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2024-21410
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2024-21410
30-day exploitation probability 12.6%
first.org - NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2024-21410
Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
nvd.nist.gov - VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2024-21410
Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
vulncheck.com
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.