CVE-2024-30090
Published: 11 June 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-30090 is a high-severity Untrusted Pointer Dereference (CWE-822) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 4.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Microsoft Streaming Service is affected by an elevation of privilege vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-30090. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.0 and is associated with CWE-822 and CWE-119, indicating issues that can lead to improper access or memory operations within the streaming service component.
A local attacker with low privileges can exploit the vulnerability without user interaction. Successful exploitation grants the ability to elevate privileges and achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, although the attack complexity is rated high.
Microsoft has published guidance for the issue in its Security Response Center at the listed advisory URL, which security practitioners should consult for available patches and configuration recommendations.
The EPSS score for this CVE stands at 0.2092 with no recorded increase from its peak value.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-28027
Vulnerability details
Microsoft Streaming Service Elevation of Privilege 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.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.