Microsoft Publisher protection mechanism

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Publisher. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to protection mechanism. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-38226. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Publisher (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 09/10/2024 as confirmed security update guide (Website). The advisory is shared at msrc.microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-38226. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/21/2025).

It is declared as attacked. The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog lists this issue since 09/10/2024 with a due date of 10/01/2024:

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Zero-Day.cz (912). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Vendor Base Score (Microsoft): 7.3
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CNA Base Score: 7.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Protection mechanism
CWE: CWE-693
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Status: Attacked

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Timelineinfo

09/10/2024 🔍
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10/21/2025 +406 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: msrc.microsoft.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-38226 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-38226
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-277037
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 09/10/2024 19:21
Updated: 10/21/2025 22:27
Changes: 09/10/2024 19:21 (29), 09/10/2024 19:25 (39), 09/11/2024 13:04 (1), 09/12/2024 08:18 (11), 09/14/2024 08:08 (10), 09/30/2024 17:13 (9), 03/10/2025 19:52 (3), 10/21/2025 22:27 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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Discussion

 Anonymous User (+0)
2 years ago
I dont’t find this cpe into NVD NIST dictionary. I found microsoft:publisher
May You verify?
Thanks,
TEAM CERT
 VulDB Community Team2 years ago
Thank you, we have just aligned the products CPE.

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