Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38229

High

Published: 08 October 2024

Published
08 October 2024
Modified
06 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
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

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.

References