CVE-2024-38193

unknown KEV

Published 2024-08-13 · Modified 2024-08-13

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.5

Description

Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation, enabling a local attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges.

CISA KEV

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Windows
Due date: 2024-09-03

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

99%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-52284 local windows

Milad karimi · 2025-05-09

Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 23H2 - Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38193; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38193

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.