CVE-2024-38193

high

Description

Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38193

https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/microsofts-patch-tuesday-fixes-63-flaws.html

https://thehackernews.com/2024/08/north-korean-hackers-deploy-fudmodule.html

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/30/north-korean-threat-actor-citrine-sleet-exploiting-chromium-zero-day/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-hackers-exploit-chrome-zero-day-to-deploy-rootkit/

https://thehackernews.com/2024/08/microsoft-patches-zero-day-flaw.html

https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-warns-of-six-windows-zero-days-being-actively-exploited/

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-august-2024/

https://www.gendigital.com/blog/news/innovation/protecting-windows-users

https://www.tenable.com/blog/microsofts-february-2025-patch-tuesday-addresses-55-cves-cve-2025-21418-cve-2025-21391

https://www.tenable.com/blog/microsoft-patch-tuesday-2024-year-in-review

https://www.tenable.com/blog/microsofts-august-2024-patch-tuesday-addresses-88-cves

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-13

Updated: 2024-08-14

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.75394