Microsoft addresses 117 CVEs with three rated as critical and four zero-day vulnerabilities, two of which were exploited in the wild.

Microsoft’s October 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 117 CVEs (CVE-2024-43572, CVE-2024-43573)

Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044343. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38212,     CVE-2024-38261, CVE-2024-38265, CVE-2024-43453, CVE-2024-43549, CVE-2024-43564, CVE-2024-43589,     CVE-2024-43592, CVE-2024-43593, CVE-2024-43607, CVE-2024-43608, CVE-2024-43611)

  - Windows Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38124)

  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044285. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect     an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte     localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some     however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the     overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()`     implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this     flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special     circumstances. (CVE-2024-6197)   
  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

  - An attacker could exploit a use after free vulnerability within the OS SAPI component to execute     arbitrary code in the context of the compromised user to disclose sensitive information, compromise     system integrity or impact the availability of the victim's system. (CVE-2024-43574)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044286. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

  - Remote Registry Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43532)

  - Microsoft WDAC OLE DB provider for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43519)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044284. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect     an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte     localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some     however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the     overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()`     implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this     flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special     circumstances. (CVE-2024-6197)     
  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

  - An attacker could exploit a use after free vulnerability within the OS SAPI component to execute     arbitrary code in the context of the compromised user to disclose sensitive information, compromise     system integrity or impact the availability of the victim's system. (CVE-2024-43574)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044288. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect     an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte     localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some     however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the     overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()`     implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this     flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special     circumstances. (CVE-2024-6197)

  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

  - An attacker could exploit a use after free vulnerability within the OS SAPI component to execute     arbitrary code in the context of the compromised user to disclose sensitive information, compromise     system integrity or impact the availability of the victim's system. (CVE-2024-43574)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044293. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38212,     CVE-2024-38261, CVE-2024-38265, CVE-2024-43453, CVE-2024-43549, CVE-2024-43564, CVE-2024-43589,     CVE-2024-43592, CVE-2024-43593, CVE-2024-43607, CVE-2024-43608, CVE-2024-43611)

  - Windows Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38124)

  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044280. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect     an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte     localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some     however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the     overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()`     implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this     flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special     circumstances. (CVE-2024-6197)

  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

  - An attacker could exploit a use after free vulnerability within the OS SAPI component to execute     arbitrary code in the context of the compromised user to disclose sensitive information, compromise     system integrity or impact the availability of the victim's system. (CVE-2024-43574)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044281. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect     an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte     localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some     however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the     overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()`     implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this     flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special     circumstances. (CVE-2024-6197)

  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

  - An attacker could exploit a use after free vulnerability within the OS SAPI component to execute     arbitrary code in the context of the compromised user to disclose sensitive information, compromise     system integrity or impact the availability of the victim's system. (CVE-2024-43574)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044273. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect     an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte     localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some     however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the     overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()`     implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this     flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special     circumstances. (CVE-2024-6197)

  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

  - An attacker could exploit a use after free vulnerability within the OS SAPI component to execute     arbitrary code in the context of the compromised user to disclose sensitive information, compromise     system integrity or impact the availability of the victim's system. (CVE-2024-43574)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update 5044277. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities

  - libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect     an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte     localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some     however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the     overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()`     implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this     flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special     circumstances. (CVE-2024-6197)   
  - Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-43599)

  - An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted protocol message to a Routing and Remote     Access Service (RRAS) server, which could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on the RAS server machine.
    (CVE-2024-43607)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
208305	KB5044343: Windows Server 2012 R2 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	critical
208304	KB5044285: Windows 11 version 22H2 / 23H2 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
208303	KB5044286: Windows 10 LTS 1507 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
208302	KB5044284: Windows 11 Version 24H2 / Windows Server 2025 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
208301	KB5044288: Windows 11 version 22H2 / Windows Server version 23H2 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	critical
208298	KB5044293: Windows 10 Version 1607 / Windows Server 2016 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	critical
208296	KB5044280: Windows 11 version 21H2 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
208295	KB5044281: Windows Server 2022 / Azure Stack HCI 22H2 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	critical
208292	KB5044273: Windows 10 version 21H2 / Windows 10 Version 22H2 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
208285	KB5044277: Windows 10 version 1809 / Windows Server 2019 Security Update (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	critical

Detections

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CVE-2024-43573

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Tenable Plugins

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