Microsoft August 2024: 6 actively exploited zero-days

CVE-2024-38106: Microsoft Windows Kernel contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation, enabling a local attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition. CVE-2024-38107: Microsoft Windows Power Dependency Coordinator contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation, enabling a local attacker to obtain SYSTEM privileges. CVE-2024-38178: Microsoft Windows Scripting Engine contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attacker to initiate remote code execution via a specially crafted URL. CVE-2024-38189: Microsoft Project contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for remote code execution via a malicious file. CVE-2024-38193: Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation, enabling a local attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. CVE-2024-38213: Microsoft Windows SmartScreen contains a security feature bypass vulnerability that allows an attacker to bypass the SmartScreen user experience via a malicious file. Added to the CISA KEV catalog on 2024-08-13.

Why this severity: CVSS 8.8 (v3.1, CNA), actively exploited (CISA KEV)

Started

Aug 13, 2024

Closed

Aug 13, 2024

CVEs

CVE-2024-38106CVE-2024-38107CVE-2024-38178CVE-2024-38189CVE-2024-38193CVE-2024-38213

• Microsoft
• Windows
• CISA KEV
• Zero-day
• RCE

Notes & caveats

Derived from the CISA KEV JSON feed (catalogVersion 2026.10.21); CVSS from the CVE record (cveawg.mitre.org). startedAt is the CVE publication date when it fell in 2024 before the KEV listing, else the KEV dateAdded; exploitation may have begun earlier. closedAt is the KEV listing date (a fix or mitigation was available then unless noted).