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CVE-2024-38217 — Microsoft Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW) Protection Mechanism Failure Vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.4 CISA KEV

Windows Mark of the Web Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.4 (3.1)
Published
2024-09-10
CISA KEV
Known exploited
Ecosystem
windows/system
Weaknesses
CWE-693

Affected products

  • microsoft / windows_10_1507
  • microsoft / windows_10_1607
  • microsoft / windows_10_1809
  • microsoft / windows_10_21h2
  • microsoft / windows_10_22h2
  • microsoft / windows_11_21h2

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Matched remediation archetype

General vulnerability remediation

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Check exposure

  • Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
  • Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
  • Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.

Remediate safely

  • Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
  • Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
  • Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.

Authoritative sources

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