Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38138

High

Published: 13 August 2024

Published
13 August 2024
Modified
16 August 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0406 88.8th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38138 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2016. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 11.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows Deployment Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows server 2016
≤ 10.0.14393.7259
microsoft
windows server 2019
≤ 10.0.17763.6189
microsoft
windows server 2022
≤ 10.0.20348.2655
microsoft
windows server 2022 23h2
≤ 10.0.25398.1085

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.

addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References