CVE-2024-38229
High
Published: 08 October 2024
Published
08 October 2024
Modified
06 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0097
77.0th percentile
Risk Priority
17
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2024-38229 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 23.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-2987
Vulnerability details
.NET and Visual Studio 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
visual studio 2022
17.6.0 — 17.6.20 · 17.8.0 — 17.8.15 · 17.10.0 — 17.10.8
microsoft
.net
8.0.0 — 8.0.10
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.