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CVE-2024-38179

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-38179 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI). With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), it allows a local, low-privileged attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_stack_hci:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 76th 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 (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Stack HCI OS 22H2Fixed in: 10.0.20349.2762
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Stack HCI OS 23H2Fixed in: 10.0.25398.1189
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2024-Oct/CVE-2024-38179Important

Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Oct 8, 2024

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38179
PatchVendor Advisory