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CVE-2024-38167

CVE-2024-38167 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. 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.

High

High severity Microsoft vulnerability, CVSS 7.5. Fixed by 1 Microsoft security update.

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Risk summary

CVSS base
7.5
EPSS exploit probability
2.7%
Severity
High

Senserva AI Opinion for CVE-2024-38167

.NET 8.0 and Visual Studio 2022 (versions 17.8 and 17.10) share an information disclosure vulnerability here, rated High at 7.5 with a low 3 percent EPSS score, making it a developer-workstation concern rather than a server-fleet emergency. This is one of the few findings in this batch that targets development tooling rather than the Windows OS or a server role, so its exposure is limited to machines where developers build or debug .NET applications. It is not confirmed exploited or ransomware-linked.

Do this: Update Visual Studio 2022 and the .NET 8.0 SDK on developer workstations during the normal patch cycle.

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

Senserva AI Opinion and rich prompt for CVE-2024-38167

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Schedule normally
No exploitation observed: not in the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS 3%.
Fixed by KB5042132. Download from the Microsoft Update Catalog, or deploy via Windows Update, Intune, or WSUS.
Do this now: Deploy with your normal update cycle. This page refreshes daily; the verdict changes the day the data does.

Updated August 7, 2026. Data refreshed on every build from MSRC, CISA KEV, and FIRST EPSS.

Full tracking and change history for CVE-2024-38167

Published
2024-08-13
Last revised
2024-10-11
Changes tracked
1

Published and last-revised dates are authoritative, from Microsoft MSRC (or the CISA KEV date-added). Senserva additionally records day-to-day changes from 2026-07-07, refreshed several times a day; the change count reflects that forward-only tracking.

Exploitation and severity

Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability 2.7%. CVSS 7.5 (High).

This CVE is among the lower half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.

Official patch(es) for CVE-2024-38167

Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing update KB5042132 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-2024-38167. 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.

KB5042132

Affected products

Fixed by the same update

If you are patching CVE-2024-38167, the same update also fixes these:

CVE-2024-38168

Authoritative references

Official CVE record (cve.org)NVD detailMicrosoft MSRCFIRST.org EPSS

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