Patch tracker / CVE reference / CVE-2024-37338
CVE-2024-37338
CVE-2024-37338 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy one of the 6 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 2.2%. CVSS 8.8 (High).
This CVE is among the lower half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.
SQL Server's Native Scoring feature, the in-engine machine learning capability, carries this High Severity CVSS 8.8 remote code execution flaw affecting SQL Server 2017 and 2019 on both the GDR and CU 31 branches. Exploitation would run attacker code inside the database engine's context, where the most sensitive data lives. EPSS holds the probability low at 2 percent.
Do this: Patch SQL Server 2017 and 2019 instances and identify which databases actually invoke Native Scoring functions.
AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-07. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.
Senserva AI Opinion and rich prompt for CVE-2024-37338
Copy this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot. The facts are included, sourced from this page.
Official patch(es) for CVE-2024-37338
Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5042211, KB5042214, KB5042215, KB5042217, KB5042578, KB5042749 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-2024-37338. 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
Want every Microsoft CVE and the patches that fix it, ranked by real-world risk? See the Microsoft Patch Tracker.