CVE-2024-38226

HIGHCVSS 7.3Known Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38226; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38226

Remediation deadline: October 1, 2024

Description

Microsoft Publisher contains a protection mechanism failure vulnerability that allows attacker to bypass Office macro policies used to block untrusted or malicious files.

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: 7.3 (HIGH)

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

Affected Software

From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

microsoft

Products

office_2019office_long_term_servicing_channelpublisher

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-693

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38226Patch
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-38226US Government Resource

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute