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CVE-2024-21414
CVE-2024-21414 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy one of the 8 updates below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.
Risk summary
Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability 1.8%. CVSS 8.8 (High).
This CVE is among the lower half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.
Client-side, not server-side: this SQL Server Native Client OLE DB flaw executes code on the machine making the connection when the far end is malicious. The GDR baselines for SQL Server 2016 SP3, 2017, and 2019 are all in scope, and shared workstations with SQL tooling installed are easy to overlook. A 2 percent EPSS and no KEV listing keep this at standard patch priority.
Do this: Include admin workstations and jump boxes with SQL client tooling in the GDR patch rollout.
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Official patch(es) for CVE-2024-21414
Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5040936, KB5040939, KB5040940, KB5040942, KB5040944, KB5040946, KB5040948, KB5040986 are installed across the affected products. Senserva does this automatically across your tenant and flags every missing patch.
Apply the Microsoft security updates below to fix CVE-2024-21414. Each KB page carries the Microsoft Update Catalog download, Microsoft's known issues for the update, a copy-paste PowerShell check for whether it is installed, and the Senserva AI read.
Scope and sources
- Affected products
- Fixed by the same updates
- Authoritative references
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