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High MSRC-CVE-2024-38138 1 CVE

Windows Deployment Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Aug 13, 2024 · Updated Oct 10, 2024 · Revision 3

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
For an attacker to exploit this vulnerability, they would need to have knowledge of a specific operation that triggers a memory allocation failure, specifically a use after free.

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires the attacker to be an authenticated Windows Deployment Services user and to request a certain operation via an RPC call.

Security updates
10.0.17763.6414 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5044277
10.0.20348.2700 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5042881
10.0.25398.1128 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043055
10.0.14393.7336 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043051
6.0.6003.22870 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043135
6.0.6003.22870 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043087
6.1.7601.27320 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043129
6.1.7601.27320 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043092
6.2.9200.25073 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043125
6.3.9600.22175 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5043138

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #3

    Updated product information in the Software Update table. This is an informational change only.

  2. #2

    The following updates have been made to CVE-2024-38138: 1) In the Security Updates table, added all supported versions of the following as they are affected by this vulnerability: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2. 2) Further, to comprehensively address this vulnerability, Microsoft has released September 2024 security updates for all affected versions of Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, and Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition. Microsoft recommends that customers install the updates to be fully protected from the vulnerability. Customers whose systems are configured to receive automatic updates do not need to take any further action.

  3. #1

    Information published.

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