CVE-2024-43624
Published: 12 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-43624 is a high-severity Untrusted Pointer Dereference (CWE-822) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 11 22H2. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 12.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability CVE-2024-43624 is an elevation of privilege flaw in the Windows Hyper-V Shared Virtual Disk component. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 and is associated with CWE-822.
An attacker with low privileges can exploit the issue over a network with low attack complexity and no user interaction, achieving high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the target system.
Microsoft published an advisory for the vulnerability at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43624. The EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.1152 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current value of 0.0352, indicating that exploitation interest emerged after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-40370
Vulnerability details
Windows Hyper-V Shared Virtual Disk 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.