CVE-2024-43590 (GCVE-0-2024-43590)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-08 17:36 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:27
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Visual C++ Redistributable Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
Visual C++ Redistributable Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-08 18:34 UTC
CWE
- CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerabi… | vendor-advisorypatch |
Impacted products
7 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8) |
Affected:
15.9.0 , < 15.9.67
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10) |
Affected:
16.11.0 , < 16.11.41
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 |
Affected:
17.10 , < 17.10.8
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11 |
Affected:
17.11 , < 17.11.5
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 |
Affected:
17.6.0 , < 17.6.20
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 |
Affected:
17.8.0 , < 17.8.15
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Microsoft | Visual C++ Redistributable Installer |
Affected:
10.0.0 , < 14.40.33816
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2024-10-08 07:00
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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