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CVE-2021-40444 Unmapped

Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vendor / product
Microsoft — MSHTML
Description (CISA)
Microsoft MSHTML contains a unspecified vulnerability that allows for remote code execution.
Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Due date
2021-11-17
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Known ransomware use
Known
CWE
CWE-22
CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40444
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-2021-40444. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-22) — here is why — and does not guess.

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Sigma rules tagged with this CVE

2 rules in SigmaHQ carry the tag cve.2021-40444. 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.

Author: Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems), @SBousseaden (idea) · 2022-06-02 (modified 2023-02-04) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 868955d9-697e-45d4-a3da-360cefd7c216
Detects Office applications executing a child process that includes directory traversal patterns. This could be an attempt to exploit CVE-2022-30190 (MSDT RCE) or CVE-2021-40444 (MSHTML RCE)
CVE tags: CVE-2021-40444
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), @neonprimetime · 2021-09-08 (modified 2023-02-04) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 894397c6-da03-425c-a589-3d09e7d1f750
Detects potential exploitation of CVE-2021-40444 via suspicious process patterns seen in in-the-wild exploitations
CVE tags: CVE-2021-40444