Microsoft addresses 147 CVEs in its April 2024 Patch Tuesday release with three critical vulnerabilities and no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.
Microsoft patched 147 CVEs in its April 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with three rated critical, 142 rated as important, and two rated as moderate.
This month’s update includes patches for:
Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities accounted for 45.6% of the vulnerabilities patched this month, followed by elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities at 21.1%.
CVE-2024-29988 is a security feature bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 8.8 and is rated as important. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a target to open a specially crafted file using social engineering tactics such as an external link or malicious attachment sent over email, instant messages or social media.This flaw was reported to Microsoft by some of the same researchers that disclosed CVE-2024-21412, an Internet Shortcut Files security feature bypass that was associated with a DarkGate campaign using fake installer files impersonating Apple iTunes, Notion, NVIDIA and others.
CVE-2024-29990 is an EoP vulnerability in the Azure Kubernetes Service Confidential Containers (AKSCC). It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9 and is rated important. Exploitation of this flaw hinges on the preparation of a target environment by an attacker. Successful exploitation would enable an attacker to “steal credentials and affect resources beyond the security scope managed by AKSCC.” This includes taking over both “confidential guests and containers beyond the network stack it might be bound to.”
This is the third month in a row that a flaw in AKSCC was patched as part of Patch Tuesday:
CVE | Description | CVSSv3 | Patch Tuesday |
---|---|---|---|
CVE-2024-21400 | Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Confidential Container Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | 9 | March 2024 |
CVE-2024-21376 | Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Confidential Container Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 9 | February 2024 |
CVE-2024-21403 | Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Confidential Container Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | 9 | February 2024 |
All four of these vulnerabilities were reported to Microsoft by Yuval Avrahami of Palo Alto Networks.
This month's release included 41 CVEs affecting multiple drivers for SQL Server, the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver, WDAC OLE DB Driver and OLE DB driver. All but one of these CVEs received CVSSv3 scores of 8.8, with the lone exception, CVE-2024-29045 receiving a 7.5. All were rated as “Exploitation Less Likely” according to the Microsoft Exploitability Index, with none being publicly disclosed or exploited in the wild. A full list of the CVEs is included in the table below.
CVE | Description | CVSSv3 |
---|---|---|
CVE-2024-28929 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28930 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28931 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28932 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28933 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28934 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28935 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28936 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28937 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28938 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28941 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28943 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29043 | Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28906 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28908 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28909 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28910 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28911 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28912 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28913 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28914 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28915 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28926 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28927 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28939 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28940 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28942 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28944 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-28945 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29044 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29045 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 7.5 |
CVE-2024-29047 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29048 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29982 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29983 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29984 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29985 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-26210 | Microsoft WDAC OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-26214 | Microsoft WDAC SQL Server ODBC Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-26244 | Microsoft WDAC OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
CVE-2024-29046 | Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 8.8 |
Microsoft patched 24 CVEs in Windows Secure Boot in as part of the April 2024 Patch Tuesday release. All are rated as “Exploitation Less Likely” and vary in CVSSv3 scores from 4.1 to 8.0.
Four of the 24 CVEs were assigned a CVSSv3 score of 8.0. They include CVE-2024-26240, CVE-2024-26189, CVE-2024-28925 and CVE-2024-26180. Exploitation of all of these flaws do require an attacker to have either physical access or local administrator privileges on the vulnerable device.
These 24 CVEs are the first bundle of Secure Boot vulnerabilities we’ve seen since May 2023, when Microsoft patched CVE-2023-24932, another security feature bypass flaw in Secure Boot that was exploited in the wild as part of the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit.
A list of all the plugins released for Tenable’s April 2024 Patch Tuesday update can be found here. As always, we recommend patching systems as soon as possible and regularly scanning your environment to identify those systems yet to be patched.
For more specific guidance on best practices for vulnerability assessments, please refer to our blog post on How to Perform Efficient Vulnerability Assessments with Tenable.
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