MSRC-CVE-2024-38161 — Windows Mobile Broadband Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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 vector is physical (AV:P). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker needs to physically connect a malicious USB device to the victim's machine.

Security updates
10.0.17763.6054 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040430
10.0.22000.3079 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040431
10.0.19044.4651 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040427
10.0.22621.3880 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040442

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 6.8

CVE-2024-38161

Windows Mobile Broadband Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Windows Mobile Broadband Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) Windows 10 Version 1809 Windows

Aug 13, 2024

Revision history

2024-08-13 #1
Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in July 2024, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the July 2024 Security Updates. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already installed the July 2024 updates do not need to take any further action.

References

CVE-2024-38161 Windows Mobile Broadband Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38161
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss