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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Publisher Protection Mechanism Failure Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2024-09-10
Remediation due
2024-10-01

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/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38226; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38226

Description

Microsoft Publisher Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA7.3 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableno
Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
MicrosoftMicrosoft Office 2019
19.0.0 to <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
MicrosoftMicrosoft Office LTSC 2021
16.0.1 to <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
MicrosoftMicrosoft Publisher 2016
16.0.0 to <16.0.5465.1001

References

1 Links

Record Details

Published
2024-09-10
Last updated
2026-08-10
Assigner (CNA)
microsoft
Credited to
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