How severe is CVE-2024-38080?

CVE-2024-38080 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2024-38080: Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2024-07-09

Remediation due

2024-07-30

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

CISA notes
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38080; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38080

Description

Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA7.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 17, 2026

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CISA added CVE-2024-38080 to the KEV catalog on the day its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2024 is 21.5 days.
It is one of 391 Microsoft entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 36 added in 2024.
Its current EPSS score (7.1%) is higher than that of 22% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Microsoft	Microsoft Windows Server 2022	10.0.20348.0 to <10.0.20348.2582
Microsoft	Microsoft Windows 11 version 21H2	10.0.0 to <10.0.22000.3079
Microsoft	Microsoft Windows 11 version 22H2	10.0.22621.0 to <10.0.22621.3880
Microsoft	Microsoft Windows 11 version 22H3	10.0.22631.0 to <10.0.22631.3880
Microsoft	Microsoft Windows 11 Version 23H2	10.0.22631.0 to <10.0.22631.3880
Microsoft	Microsoft Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)	10.0.25398.0 to <10.0.25398.1009

References

1 Links

Vendor advisories

Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Record Details

Published

2024-07-09

Last updated

2026-02-10

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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CVE-2024-38080