Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38199

Critical

Published: 13 August 2024

Published
13 August 2024
Modified
15 August 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0457 89.5th percentile
Risk Priority 22 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38199 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 10.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CWE(s)
CWE-416NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20751
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.7259
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.6189
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.4780
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.4780
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
≤ 10.0.22000.3147
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4037
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4037
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.1457
microsoft
windows server 2008
all versions, r2
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

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.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

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

References