Patch tracker / CVE reference / CVE-2024-38021
CVE-2024-38021
CVE-2024-38021 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy the update 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 3.5%. CVSS 8.8 (High).
This CVE is among the lower half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.
Outlook is the delivery channel for this remote code execution flaw, which puts every mailbox user of Office 2019 and Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise in the target pool. Email-borne Office bugs are prized by attackers because the victim only has to handle a crafted message rather than seek out a file. The 4 percent EPSS is several times the background rate of the surrounding Office fixes.
Do this: Push the Outlook update through your Microsoft 365 Apps update channel today and confirm 32-bit installs are included.
AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-07. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.
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Official patch(es) for CVE-2024-38021
Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing update KB5002620 are installed across the affected products. Senserva does this automatically across your tenant and flags every missing patch.
Apply the Microsoft security update below to fix CVE-2024-38021. 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 update
- Authoritative references
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