Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-26254

High

Published: 09 April 2024

Published
09 April 2024
Modified
05 December 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0653 91.3th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-26254 is a high-severity Untrusted Pointer Dereference (CWE-822) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1809. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 8.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus) is affected by a denial-of-service vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-26254. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.5 and is associated with CWE-822, allowing an unauthenticated network attacker to disrupt availability without any user interaction or privileges.

An attacker with network access can send crafted traffic to the VMBus component and trigger a denial-of-service condition that impacts the confidentiality or integrity of no data but renders the affected service unavailable. The attack requires no authentication and can be performed remotely over the network.

Microsoft has published guidance for the issue at the MSRC update guide, indicating that patches or configuration changes are available to address the vulnerability. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at 0.0653 with no material increase since disclosure.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus) Denial of Service Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.5696
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.4291
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.4291
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
≤ 10.0.22000.2899
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.3447
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.3447
microsoft
windows server 2019
≤ 10.0.17763.5696
microsoft
windows server 2022
≤ 10.0.20348.2402
microsoft
windows server 2022 23h2
≤ 10.0.25398.830

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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