CVE-2024-38217

CISA KEV
ACT NOW Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 2/100
Published: N/A Modified: N/A First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: pending_score

Description

Microsoft Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW) contains a protection mechanism failure vulnerability that allows an attacker to bypass MOTW-based defenses. This can result in a limited loss of integrity and availability of security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office, which rely on MOTW tagging.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Vendor / Product Microsoft — Windows
Date Added 2024-09-10
Remediation Due 2024-10-01
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38217; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38217

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (21)

VendorProductVersion
microsoft windows_10_1507 < 10.0.10240.20766
microsoft windows_10_1507 < 10.0.10240.20766
microsoft windows_10_1607 < 10.0.14393.7336
microsoft windows_10_1607 < 10.0.14393.7336
microsoft windows_10_1809 < 10.0.17763.6293
microsoft windows_10_1809 < 10.0.17763.6293
microsoft windows_10_21h2 < 10.0.19044.4894
microsoft windows_10_22h2 < 10.0.19045.4894
microsoft windows_11_21h2 < 10.0.22000.3197
microsoft windows_11_22h2 < 10.0.22621.4169
microsoft windows_11_23h2 < 10.0.22631.4169
microsoft windows_11_24h2 < 10.0.26100.1742
microsoft windows_11_24h2 < 10.0.26100.1742
microsoft windows_server_2008 -
microsoft windows_server_2008 r2
microsoft windows_server_2012 -
microsoft windows_server_2012 r2
microsoft windows_server_2016 < 10.0.14393.7336
microsoft windows_server_2019 < 10.0.17763.6293
microsoft windows_server_2022 < 10.0.20348.2700
microsoft windows_server_2022_23h2 < 10.0.25398.1128

Bug Bounty Relevance

2 / 100
✓ Known exploited (KEV)

CVSS Score

Unscored

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

10.03%
Raw Score 0.100260
Percentile 95.6%
Date 2026-10-28

Intelligence Sources

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