CVE-2024-30017: Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Overview

Severity

High (CVSS 8.8)

CVSS Vector

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

Category

Remote Code Execution

Exploit Status

Not Exploited

Exploitation Likelihood

Less Likely

Patch Tuesday

2024-May

Released

2024-05-14

Last Updated

2024-05-15

EPSS Score

9.34% (percentile: 92.8%)

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability? The attacker must be authenticated to be able to exploit this vulnerability. How would an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could send malformed packets to Hyper-V Replica endpoints on the host from a remote machine.

Affected Products (18)

Windows

• Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)
• Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based Systems
• Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems
• Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based Systems
• Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems
• Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)
• Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
• Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)

Security Updates (9)

• 5037765
• 5037782
• 5037848
• 5037770
• 5037768
• 5037771
• 5037781
• 5037788
• 5037763

Acknowledgments

<a href="https://twitter.com/ezrak1e">ziming zhang</a> with Ant Security Light-Year Lab

Revision History

• 2024-05-14: Information published.
• 2024-05-15: Updated FAQ information. This is an informational change only.