A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component CSC Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 04/09/2024 as confirmed security update guide (Website). The advisory is shared for download at msrc.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-26229. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 04/09/2024).

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

Similar entries are available at VDB-159568, VDB-159592, VDB-167673 and VDB-167674.

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• Operating System

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• 10
• 10 21H2
• 10 22H2
• 10 1607
• 10 1809
• 11 21H2
• 11 22H2
• 11 23H2
• Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Server 2008 SP2
• Server 2012
• Server 2012 R2
• Server 2016
• Server 2019
• Server 2022
• Server 2022 23H2

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• commercial

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