Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-03-03
Federal due date
2022-03-24
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows
EPSS
91.5th percentile (score 0.068, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0210

CISA short description

A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the POSIX subsystem. This vulnerability could allow a logged on user to take complete control of the system.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.