CVE-2024-38144
Published: 13 August 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-38144 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 0.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-38144 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 and is associated with CWE-190. The flaw was publicly disclosed on 13 August 2024 and affects the affected Windows kernel streaming component.
An attacker with low privileges and network access can exploit the issue without user interaction to obtain full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact on the target system. The attack vector is rated as network-reachable with low complexity and unchanged scope.
Microsoft has published an advisory for the vulnerability at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38144. The current EPSS score stands at 0.7981 with a recorded peak of 0.8235.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-37117
Vulnerability details
Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver 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
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.