CVE-2024-38242
Published: 10 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-38242 is a high-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 22H2. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 11.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-38242 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Kernel Streaming Service Driver, assigned a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 with the vector AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The associated CWEs are CWE-122 and NVD-CWE-noinfo. It was published on 10 September 2024.
A local attacker with low privileges can exploit the flaw without user interaction to obtain high privileges on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The attack requires local access and does not cross a security boundary.
Microsoft has published an advisory for the issue at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38242. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.0554 on 11 December 2025 before receding to its current value of 0.0381.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-37208
Vulnerability details
Kernel Streaming 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.