CVE-2024-30080
Published: 11 June 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-30080 is a critical-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 4.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) contains a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-30080 and assigned CWE-416 (use after free). The flaw resides in the MSMQ service component on Windows and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8, reflecting network attackability without authentication or user interaction.
An unauthenticated attacker can send specially crafted network messages to an MSMQ endpoint, triggering the use-after-free condition to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the MSMQ service and thereby gain full control over the affected system.
Microsoft’s advisory at msrc.microsoft.com recommends applying the security update released on June 11, 2024. Third-party resources from vicarius.io provide accompanying detection and mitigation scripts that can be used to identify unpatched MSMQ instances and apply temporary workarounds until the official patch is deployed.
The associated EPSS score has remained essentially flat near 0.17 with no material post-disclosure rise.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-28017
Vulnerability details
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.