CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-38226

7.3 HIGH Known exploited Published 2024-09-10 Modified 2026-08-10 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Microsoft Publisher Protection Mechanism Failure Vulnerability — Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Publisher contains a protection mechanism failure vulnerability that allows attacker to bypass Office macro policies used to block untrusted or malicious files.

Added to KEV
2024-09-10
Remediation due
2024-10-01
Ransomware use
Unknown
Required action
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
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-09-10
Last modified
2026-08-10
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-693

Description

Microsoft Publisher Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Affected configurations

• microsoft office 2019 • microsoft office long term servicing channel 2021 • microsoft publisher 2016

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure weakness

References