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Advisory record · GHSA-hq7w-xv5x-g34j

Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2024-38081 | .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS 7.3 HighEPSS 0.013 · 70th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 9 Jul 2024, 21:14 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
Microsoft.IO.RedistNuGet>=4.6.0-preview.18571.3, <6.0.16.0.1
Identifiers
GHSA-hq7w-xv5x-g34j · BIT-dotnet-2024-38081 · BIT-dotnet-sdk-2024-38081 · CVE-2024-38081
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-59
Tags
Published
9 Jul 2024
Updated
17 Nov 2025

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Microsoft.IO.Redist versions from 4.6.0-preview.18571.3 up to but not including 6.0.1 are affected. An unprivileged user on Windows who can manipulate a Visual Studio installation can gain elevated privileges. Upgrade Microsoft.IO.Redist to version 6.0.1.

Written 9 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.3 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C CNA (microsoft)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.013, the 70th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 9 Jul 2024, 17:29 UTC Published by the maintainers as a GitHub repository advisory
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:22 UTC First seen by agentprime
  3. 31 Oct 2026, 15:22 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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