CVE-2024-43492 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU). With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it allows a local attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.72CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:autoupdate:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.