CVE-2024-38100: Windows File Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
This Microsoft advisory covers CVE-2024-38100 in Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation) and Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation).
- CVE-2024-38100
Key facts
- Vendor rating
- High, CVSS 7.8
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C· base score 7.8, scored by microsoftAttack vector: local. Attack complexity: low. Privileges required: low. User interaction: none. Scope: unchanged. Confidentiality impact: high. Integrity impact: high. Availability impact: high.- Weakness
- CWE-284: Improper Access Control
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: proof of concept exists. Automatable: no. Technical impact: total. CISA, .
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Affected
- Windows Server 2019 10.0.17763.0 before 10.0.17763.6054; Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) 10.0.17763.0 before 10.0.17763.6054; Windows Server 2022 10.0.20348.0 before 10.0.20348.2582 and 3 more below
- Fixed in
- 10.0.17763.6054, 10.0.20348.2582, 10.0.25398.1009 and 1 more below
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
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Affected products & platforms
Description
Windows File Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Affected products named by the advisory: Windows Server 2019; Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation); Windows Server 2022; Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation); and 2 more.
Affected products named by the advisory: Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation).
Text from the source record.
- Windows Server 2019 10.0.17763.0 before 10.0.17763.6054
- Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation) 10.0.17763.0 before 10.0.17763.6054
- Windows Server 2022 10.0.20348.0 before 10.0.20348.2582
- Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation) 10.0.25398.0 before 10.0.25398.1009
- Windows Server 2016 10.0.14393.0 before 10.0.14393.7159
- Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation) 10.0.14393.0 before 10.0.14393.7159
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How to fix CVE-2024-38100
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Microsoft:
- 10.0.17763.6054
- 10.0.20348.2582
- 10.0.25398.1009
- 10.0.14393.7159
End-of-life dates for Windows Server
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