CVE-2024-38180
Published: 13 August 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-38180 is a high-severity Protection Mechanism Failure (CWE-693) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (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
Windows SmartScreen contains a security feature bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-38180 and published on 2024-08-13. The affected component is the SmartScreen feature within Windows that provides warnings for potentially malicious content. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 with the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H and is also associated with CWE-693.
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the issue remotely over a network by convincing a user to interact with malicious content. Successful exploitation bypasses SmartScreen protections and can result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the target system.
The Microsoft Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38180 provides official guidance on available patches and mitigation steps. The associated EPSS score remains flat at 0.0654 with no material increase observed since disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-37150
Vulnerability details
Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass 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.
Implements a reliable, tamperproof protection mechanism whose completeness can be assured.
Procedures for training on protection mechanisms reduce the chance of protection mechanism failures being present or exploitable.
Documented procedures to implement assessment, authorization, and monitoring controls prevent these protection mechanisms from failing due to undefined processes.
Direct evaluation of whether controls produce desired security outcomes detects protection mechanism failures and enables remediation.
Requires assessment that protection mechanisms are correctly implemented and producing intended security outcomes.
The POA&M process ensures identified weaknesses in protection mechanisms are documented and scheduled for remediation, reducing the duration they remain exploitable.
Ongoing control assessments and analysis of monitoring data enable timely detection and response when protection mechanisms fail.
Impact analysis identifies changes that could weaken or disable existing protection mechanisms.