Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-43639

Critical

Published: 12 November 2024

Published
12 November 2024
Modified
18 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0285 86.5th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-43639 is a critical-severity Numeric Truncation Error (CWE-197) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2012. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 13.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The vulnerability CVE-2024-43639 is a remote code execution flaw in the Windows KDC Proxy component, carrying a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 under the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H and mapped to CWE-197.

An unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit the issue without user interaction to achieve arbitrary code execution, resulting in full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on affected Windows systems.

Microsoft published an advisory for the vulnerability at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43639. The associated EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.1276 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current value of 0.0285, indicating that exploitation interest emerged after disclosure.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows KDC Proxy 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
windows server 2012
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2016
≤ 10.0.14393.7515
microsoft
windows server 2019
≤ 10.0.17763.6532
microsoft
windows server 2022
≤ 10.0.20348.2849
microsoft
windows server 2022 23h2
≤ 10.0.25398.1251
microsoft
windows server 2025
≤ 10.0.26100.2314

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References