CVE-2024-21410 — Exchange Server
CRITICALCVE-2024-21410 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Improper Authentication vulnerability in microsoft exchange server. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-02-15) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-02-15. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-03-07.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-21410.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-21410 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 10–50% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Affected Products
exchange servermicrosoftResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every microsoft exchange server deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-21410 yet — track the microsoft exchange server advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-21410 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.