CVE-2024-38014· NVD / CVE Program· CNA microsoft

Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 63/100)

CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Sep 10, 2024). Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Oct 1, 2024.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 6.2% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 93.5% of all records.
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window. Until a fix is released, restrict access to the affected component and follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1KEVWeaponized No fix recorded

Local privilege escalation

BDU:2024-06875

Published: Sep 10, 2024
Updated: Aug 10, 2026
EPSS: 6.2% · 93th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 30 / 30 · Listed
EPSS: 2 / 30 · 6.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: active
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · microsoft: 7.8; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

Actively exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Sep 10, 2024. That signals real attacks, not theory.

Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Oct 1, 2024.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
microsoft	windows 10 1507	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507
microsoft	windows 10 1607	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607
microsoft	windows 10 1809	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809
microsoft	windows 10 21h2	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2
microsoft	windows 10 22h2	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2
microsoft	windows 11 21h2	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_21h2
microsoft	windows 11 22h2	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2
microsoft	windows 11 23h2	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2
microsoft	windows 11 24h2	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_24h2
microsoft	windows server 2008	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008
microsoft	windows server 2012	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012
microsoft	windows server 2016	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016

and 3 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

microsoft windows server 2008all versions
microsoft windows server 2008r2
microsoft windows server 2012all versions
microsoft windows server 2012r2
microsoft windows server 2016before 10.0.14393.7336
microsoft windows server 2019before 10.0.17763.6293
microsoft windows server 2022before 10.0.20348.2700
microsoft windows server 2022 23h2before 10.0.25398.1128

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (microsoft). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507
- 10.0.10240.0 and later · before 10.0.10240.20766affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607
- 10.0.14393.0 and later · before 10.0.14393.7336affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809
- 10.0.17763.0 and later · before 10.0.17763.6293affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2
- 10.0.19043.0 and later · before 10.0.19044.4894affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 22H2
- 10.0.19045.0 and later · before 10.0.19045.4894affected
Microsoft Windows 11 version 21H2
- 10.0.0 and later · before 10.0.22000.3197affected
Microsoft Windows 11 version 22H2
- 10.0.22621.0 and later · before 10.0.22621.4169affected
Microsoft Windows 11 version 22H3
- 10.0.22631.0 and later · before 10.0.22631.4169affected
Microsoft Windows 11 Version 23H2
- 10.0.22631.0 and later · before 10.0.22631.4169affected
Microsoft Windows 11 Version 24H2
- 10.0.26100.0 and later · before 10.0.26100.1742affected
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
- 6.0.6003.0 and later · before 6.0.6003.22870affected
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
- 6.1.7601.0 and later · before 6.1.7601.27320affected

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-38223Aug 13, 2024 · Windows Initial Machine Configuration Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
27Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-30073Sep 10, 2024 · Windows Security Zone Mapping Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
31Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-38046Sep 10, 2024 · PowerShell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

CISA KEVSep 10, 2024-1 d
PublishedSep 10, 2024
TodayOct 23, 2026+773 d

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2024-26169182 days apartWindows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityKEV
62This week
CVE-2025-33067273 days apartWindows Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
33Monitor
CVE-2025-21287126 days apartWindows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
31Monitor
CVE-2025-47955273 days apartWindows Remote Access Connection Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
31Monitor
CVE-2025-27468245 days apartWindows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
28Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-1426 · Sep 11, 2024(Microsoft Windows Güvenlik Bildirimi)

All national notices →

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38014

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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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