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High MSRC-CVE-2024-29050 1 CVE

Windows Cryptographic Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Apr 9, 2024 · Updated Apr 9, 2024

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?
For successful exploitation, a malicious certificate needs to be imported on an affected system. An attacker could upload a certificate to a service that processes or imports certificates, or an attacker could convince an authenticated user to import a certificate on their system.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?
The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.

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

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