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CVE-2024-43492

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.72CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:autoupdate:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*

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
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 79th 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 AutoUpdate for MacFixed in: 4.72
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2024-Sep/CVE-2024-43492Important

Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Sep 10, 2024

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43492
PatchVendor Advisory