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CVE-2021-31979 Unmapped
Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Windows
- Description (CISA)
- Microsoft Windows kernel contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2021-11-17
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-119
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31979
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2021-31979. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-119) — here is why — and does not guess.
This page will change state automatically if a mapping is published. What is shown above is everything CISA publishes about the entry.
Sigma rules tagged with this CVE
2 rules in SigmaHQ carry the tag cve.2021-31979. These are shown as detection content for the CVE itself. Their ATT&CK tags are deliberately not rendered here: a rule author's tag is not an authoritative statement of how the vulnerability is exploited, and this page does not show techniques for unmapped entries.