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CVE-2024-43572
CVE-2024-43572 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. 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 15 updates below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.
Risk summary
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirmed exploited in the wild. EPSS exploit probability 67%. CVSS 7.8 (High).
This CVE is among the top 25% of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability, and one of 3 actively-exploited CVEs in October 2024.
CVE-2024-43572 lets an attacker run code through Microsoft Management Console, and CISA confirmed active exploitation on 2024-10-08 with a 67 percent EPSS exploit probability. Anyone still running Windows 10 Version 1809 or Windows Server 2019 is exposed, and the Severity is Critical at CVSS 9.0. Because MMC handles saved console files, malicious .msc files are a plausible delivery path against admins who open them.
Do this: Apply the October 2024 Microsoft patch for CVE-2024-43572 to all Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019 hosts today, prioritizing systems where administrators open MMC snap-in files.
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Official patch(es) for CVE-2024-43572
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 KB5044273, KB5044277, KB5044280, KB5044281, KB5044284, KB5044285, KB5044286, KB5044288, KB5044293, KB5044306, KB5044320, KB5044321, KB5044342, KB5044343, KB5044356 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-2024-43572. 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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