CVE-2024-38217

MEDIUMCVSS 5.4Known Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38217; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38217

Remediation deadline: October 1, 2024

Description

Microsoft Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW) contains a protection mechanism failure vulnerability that allows an attacker to bypass MOTW-based defenses. This can result in a limited loss of integrity and availability of security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office, which rely on MOTW tagging.

Timeline

Published:September 10th, 2024 5:15 PM

Last modified:August 10th, 2026 4:19 PM

Added to KEV:September 10th, 2024

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 5.4 (MEDIUM)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Affected Software

From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

microsoft

Products

windows_10_1507windows_10_1607windows_10_1809windows_10_21h2windows_10_22h2windows_11_21h2windows_11_22h2windows_11_23h2windows_11_24h2windows_server_2008windows_server_2012windows_server_2016windows_server_2019windows_server_2022windows_server_2022_23h2