CVE-2024-49108CriticalCVSS 8.1

Windows Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published
December 10, 2024
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-49108 →

📋 Description

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An attacker could successfully exploit this vulnerability by connecting to a system with the Remote Desktop Gateway role, triggering the race condition to create a use-after-free scenario, and then leveraging this to execute arbitrary code.

🎯 Affected products9

  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2025
  • Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB5048661 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.17763.6659 KB5048654 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.20348.2966 KB5048800 (SecurityHotpatchUpdate) — fixed build 10.0.20348.2908 KB5048667 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.26100.2605 KB5048794 (SecurityHotpatchUpdate) — fixed build 10.0.26100.2528 KB5048653 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.25398.1308 KB5048671 (Security Update) — fixed build 10.0.14393.7606

🔗 References (15)