Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker would need to send a specially crafted RPC call to an RPC host. This could result in remote code execution on the server side with the same permissions as the RPC service.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Any authenticated user could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.
What is RPC runtime?
See Remote procedure call (RPC) for more information on RPC and RPC Runtime.
Security updates
10.0.17763.5696 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036896
10.0.20348.2402 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036909
10.0.22000.2899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036894
10.0.19044.4291 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036892
10.0.22621.3447 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036893
10.0.25398.830 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036910
10.0.10240.20596 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036925
10.0.14393.6897 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036899
6.0.6003.22618 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036932
6.0.6003.22618 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036950
6.1.7601.27067 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036967
6.1.7601.27067 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036922
6.2.9200.24821 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036969
6.3.9600.21924 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036960
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Remote Procedure Call Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Remote Procedure Call Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-20678 Remote Procedure Call Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20678
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss