CVE-2024-38226 — Microsoft Publisher Protection Mechanism Failure Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38226: Microsoft Publisher Protection Mechanism Failure Vulnerability
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)
| Vendor / project | Microsoft |
| Product | Publisher |
| Date added | 2024-09-10 |
| Due date | 2024-10-01 |
| Ransomware campaign use | Unknown |
Description
Microsoft Publisher contains a protection mechanism failure vulnerability that allows attacker to bypass Office macro policies used to block untrusted or malicious files.
Required action (CISA)
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38226; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38226
Weakness behind it
CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-693. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.
References
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38226
- KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
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