Known Exploited Vulnerability
7.8
HIGH
CVE-2024-30051
Microsoft DWM Core Library Privilege Escalation V - [Actively Exploited]
Description

Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

INFO

Published Date :

May 14, 2024, 5:17 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 29, 2024, 4:31 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.8
CISA Notification
CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)

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Description :

Microsoft DWM Core Library contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges.

Required Action :

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Notes :

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30051; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-30051

Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2024-30051 has a 7 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-30051 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Microsoft windows_server_2016
2 Microsoft windows_server_2019
3 Microsoft windows_10_1607
4 Microsoft windows_10_1809
5 Microsoft windows_10_21h2
6 Microsoft windows_10_22h2
7 Microsoft windows_server_2022
8 Microsoft windows_11_21h2
9 Microsoft windows_11_22h2
10 Microsoft windows_10_1507
11 Microsoft windows_11_23h2
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2024-30051.

URL Resource
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30051 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30051 Patch Vendor Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

C++

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
108 stars 31 fork 31 watcher
Born at : Aug. 14, 2024, 4:20 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Here I store my proof of concepts

CMake C++ HTML C

Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago
12 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : May 10, 2023, 5:59 p.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.

Get quick summary of vulnerability stats and updates for Patch Tuesday.

security python3

Python

Updated: 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 13, 2022, 8:20 a.m. This repo has been linked 36 different CVEs too.

TOP All bugbounty pentesting CVE-2023- POC Exp RCE example payload Things

bugbounty cve exp exploit payload poc rce vulnerability

Shell

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
675 stars 117 fork 117 watcher
Born at : March 19, 2022, 1:54 a.m. This repo has been linked 277 different CVEs too.

Collection of Windows Privilege Escalation (Analyse/PoC/Exploit)

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
328 stars 62 fork 62 watcher
Born at : April 22, 2021, 3:29 a.m. This repo has been linked 276 different CVEs too.

📡 PoC auto collect from GitHub. ⚠️ Be careful Malware.

security cve exploit poc vulnerability

Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago
6566 stars 1140 fork 1140 watcher
Born at : Dec. 8, 2019, 1:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 958 different CVEs too.

爬取secwiki和xuanwu.github.io/sec.today,分析安全信息站点、安全趋势、提取安全工作者账号(twitter,weixin,github等)

Python HTML

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
1204 stars 208 fork 208 watcher
Born at : Feb. 19, 2019, 10:24 a.m. This repo has been linked 11 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2024-30051 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • Kaspersky
APT trends report Q3 2024

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has been releasing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity for over seven years now. Based on our threat intelligence res ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 28, 2024 (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Kaspersky
The Crypto Game of Lazarus APT: Investors vs. Zero-days

Introduction Lazarus APT and its BlueNoroff subgroup are a highly sophisticated and multifaceted Korean-speaking threat actor. We closely monitor their activities and quite often see them using their ... Read more

Published Date: Oct 23, 2024 (1 month, 4 weeks ago)
  • Kaspersky
SAS CTF and the many ways to persist a kernel shellcode on Windows 7

SAS 17 Oct 2024 16 minute read On May 18, 2024, Kaspersky’s Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT), with the help of its partners, held the qualifying stage of the SAS CTF, an international competiti ... Read more

Published Date: Oct 17, 2024 (2 months ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
RFC 9620: A Call for Human Rights in Internet Protocols

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) has released a new document, RFC 9620, aimed at drawing the attention of protocol and architecture developers to critical human rights issues.The document is in ... Read more

Published Date: Sep 19, 2024 (3 months ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
New Zero-Day Emerges After Microsoft Patch Tuesday: CVE-2024-43461 Targets Windows MSHTML

IE and a promote window dialog appear when the victim double-clicks on the .url file | Image: Check PointIn an unexpected turn of events, Microsoft has revised its September 2024 Patch Tuesday securit ... Read more

Published Date: Sep 16, 2024 (3 months ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
Don’t Fall for the Bait: Poseidon Stealer Masquerades as Sopha AI

Dialog box prompting the user to enter the password | Image: TRUIn a new wave of cyberattacks, macOS users are being targeted by the Poseidon Stealer malware, disguised as an installer for the highly ... Read more

Published Date: Sep 16, 2024 (3 months ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
CVE-2024-30051: Windows Elevation of Privilege Flaw Exploited by QakBot Malware, PoC Published

Security researchers published the technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit (PoC) code for a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, tracked as CVE-2024-30051, which could allow attackers to escala ... Read more

Published Date: Sep 10, 2024 (3 months, 1 week ago)
  • Kaspersky
IT threat evolution Q2 2024

Targeted attacks XZ backdoor: a supply chain attack in the making On March 29, a message on the Openwall oss-security mailing list announced the discovery of a backdoor in XZ, a compression utility in ... Read more

Published Date: Sep 03, 2024 (3 months, 2 weeks ago)

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-30051 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 29, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.10240.20651 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.17763.5820 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.19044.4412 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.19045.4412 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22000.2960 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22621.3593 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22631.3593 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.17763.5820 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.20348.2458 OR *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.10240.20651 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.10240.20651 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.17763.5820 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.19044.4412 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.19045.4412 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22000.2960 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22621.3593 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22631.3593 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.17763.5820 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.20348.2458
  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30051
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 16, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 16, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30051 No Types Assigned https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30051 Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-787
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.10240.20651 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.17763.5820 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.19044.4412 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.19045.4412 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22000.2960 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22621.3593 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.22631.3593 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.14393.6981 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.17763.5820 *cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 10.0.20348.2458
  • CVE CISA KEV Update by 9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725

    May. 15, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Date Added 2024-05-14
    Added Due Date 2024-06-04
    Added Required Action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
    Added Vulnerability Name Microsoft DWM Core Library Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
    Added Reference Microsoft Corporation https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30051 [No types assigned]
    Added CWE Microsoft Corporation CWE-122
    Added CVSS V3.1 Microsoft Corporation AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2024-30051 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2024-30051 weaknesses.

CVSS31 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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