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🛡️ CVE-2024-43450 — windows-server-2008

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-924 NVD
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Description

Windows DNS Spoofing Vulnerability

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-43450 is classified as CWE-924: Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel. The product establishes a communication channel with an endpoint and receives a message from that endpoint, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the message was not modified during transmission.

Affected software

CVE-2024-43450 is recorded against 7 packages.

  • windows-server-2008
  • windows-server-2012
  • windows-server-2016 (fixed in 10.0.14393.7515)
  • windows-server-2019 (fixed in 10.0.17763.6532)
  • windows-server-2022 (fixed in 10.0.20348.2849)
  • windows-server-2022-23h2 (fixed in 10.0.25398.1251)
  • windows-server-2025 (fixed in 10.0.26100.2314)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

msrc.microsoft.com

Other advisories for this package

windows-server-2008 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-924: Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-924
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
windows-server-2008
windows-server-2012
windows-server-2016 10.0.14393.7515
windows-server-2019 10.0.17763.6532
windows-server-2022 10.0.20348.2849
windows-server-2022-23h2 10.0.25398.1251
windows-server-2025 10.0.26100.2314

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