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CVE-2024-38084

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-38084 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft OfficePlus. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows a local attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including mention in a BleepingComputer article regarding Microsoft's August 2024 Patch Tuesday. There is no public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.2.0.27546CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:officeplus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0066 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft OfficePLUSFixed in: 3.2.0.27546
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2024-Aug/CVE-2024-38084Important

Microsoft OfficePlus Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Aug 13, 2024

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38084
PatchVendor Advisory