CVE-2024-37985 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2024-37985
Vulnerability Scoring

5.6
/10
Significant Risk

Security assessments indicate that CVE-2024-37985 presents a notable risk, potentially requiring prompt mitigation.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: High
    Exploits require significant effort and special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Local
    Vulnerability requires local system access.
  • Privileges Required: Low
    Some privileges are necessary to exploit the vulnerability.
  • Scope: Changed
    Successful exploitation can impact components beyond the vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2024-37985 Details

Status: Analyzed

Last updated: 🕛 29 Sep 2024, 00:26 UTC
Originally published on: 🕚 17 Sep 2024, 23:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 11 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

nvd@nist.gov

CVSS3 Type

Primary

CVSS3 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2024-37985 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-37985: Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2024-37985

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2024-37985 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2024-37985

This vulnerability, CVE-2024-37985, requires a high level of attack complexity and low privileges, making it difficult but not impossible to exploit. Organizations should ensure robust security configurations to mitigate risks.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2024-37985, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2024-37985, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: High
    Exploiting CVE-2024-37985 can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, severely compromising data privacy.
  • Integrity: None
    CVE-2024-37985 poses no threat to data integrity.
  • Availability: None
    CVE-2024-37985 does not impact system availability.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

The EPSS score estimates the probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the near future.

EPSS Score: 0.048% (probability of exploit)

EPSS Percentile: 20.55% (lower percentile = lower relative risk)
This vulnerability is less risky than approximately 79.45% of others.

CVE-2024-37985 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1037

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Exploitation of Transient Instruction Execution CAPEC-663 An adversary exploits a hardware design flaw in a CPU implementation of transient instruction execution to expose sensitive data and bypass/subvert access control over restricted resources. Typically, the adversary conducts a covert channel attack to target non-discarded microarchitectural changes caused by transient executions such as speculative execution, branch prediction, instruction pipelining, and/or out-of-order execution. The transient execution results in a series of instructions (gadgets) which construct covert channel and access/transfer the secret data.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:-:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:-:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.521:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.521:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.521:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.521:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.525:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.525:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.525:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.525:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.608:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.608:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.608:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.608:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.674:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.674:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.674:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.674:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.675:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.675:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.675:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.675:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.755:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.755:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.755:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.755:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.819:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.819:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.819:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.819:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.900:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.900:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.900:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.900:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.963:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.963:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.963:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.963:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1105:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1105:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1105:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1105:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1194:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1194:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1194:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1194:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1265:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1265:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1265:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1265:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1344:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1344:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1344:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1344:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1413:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1413:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1413:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1413:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1485:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1485:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1485:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1485:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1555:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1555:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1555:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1555:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1635:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1635:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1635:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1635:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1702:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1702:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1702:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1702:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1778:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1778:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1778:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1778:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1848:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1848:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1848:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1848:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1928:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1928:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1928:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1928:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1992:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1992:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1992:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.1992:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2070:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2070:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2070:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2070:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2134:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2134:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2134:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2134:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2215:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2215:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2215:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2215:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2283:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2283:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2283:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2283:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2361:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2361:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2361:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2361:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2428:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2428:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2428:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2428:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2715:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2715:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2715:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2715:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2861:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.2861:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.3007:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
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    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:10.0.22621.3007:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:-:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
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  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:10.0.22631.2428:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
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    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:10.0.22631.2428:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:10.0.22631.2506:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:10.0.22631.2506:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:10.0.22631.2506:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
    cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:10.0.22631.2506:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:10.0.22631.2715:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
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  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:10.0.22631.3007:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
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