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CVE-2024-38107

CVE-2024-38107 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. It is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it in the wild, which makes it a fix-first item. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy one of the 11 updates below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.

Risk summary

HighCISA KEV
9.8
CVSS
71%
EPSS, 30 days
High
Severity
Yes
Exploited in the wild

Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirmed exploited in the wild. EPSS exploit probability 71%. CVSS 9.8 (High).

This CVE is among the top 25% of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability, and one of 6 actively-exploited CVEs in August 2024.

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What changed, and when
  • 2024-08-13 added to the CISA KEV catalog by CISA
  • 2026-08-07 CVSS 7.8 to 0.0; CVSS 0.0 to 7.8

Recorded by Senserva on the dates shown, from CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. This is what moved and when, which neither the vendor advisory nor NVD publishes.

Senserva AI Opinion for CVE-2024-38107

The Power Dependency Coordinator, an obscure power management component, handed attackers a Critical CVSS 9.8 elevation of privilege that was exploited in the wild, KEV-listed on 2024-08-13 with a 71% EPSS score. Obscurity of a component is no defense once an exploit is circulating.

Do this: Check August 2024 update compliance across Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019 and remediate stragglers this week.

AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-07. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.

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Patch now
Exploited in the wild: confirmed by the CISA KEV catalog, not predicted.
Fixed by KB5041160 and 10 more (by build, listed below). Download from the Microsoft Update Catalog, or deploy via Windows Update, Intune, or WSUS.
Do this now: Patch now and verify deployment on every exposed device.

Official patch(es) for CVE-2024-38107

Treat as urgent: it is being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV), so patch ahead of items that are not. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5041160, KB5041571, KB5041573, KB5041578, KB5041580, KB5041585, KB5041592, KB5041773, KB5041782, KB5041828, KB5041851 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-2024-38107. 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.

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