Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-43574

High

Published: 08 October 2024

Published
08 October 2024
Modified
17 October 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0087 75.7th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-43574 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 21H2. Its CVSS base score is 8.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Microsoft Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) 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 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.5011
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.5011
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
≤ 10.0.22000.3260
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4317
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4317
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.2033
microsoft
windows server 2022
≤ 10.0.20348.2762
microsoft
windows server 2022 23h2
≤ 10.0.25398.1189

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