CVE-2021-40477

HIGH

Windows Event Tracing - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Core 1

Core References

Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0057

EPSS Percentile 42.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (17)

microsoft/windows_10

microsoft/windows_10 20h2

microsoft/windows_10 21h1

microsoft/windows_10 1607

microsoft/windows_10 1809

microsoft/windows_10 1909

microsoft/windows_10 2004

microsoft/windows_11 (2 CPE variants)

microsoft/windows_8.1

microsoft/windows_rt_8.1

... and 7 more

Published Oct 13, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026