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🛡️ CVE-2024-49117 — windows-11-22h2

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-393 NVD
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Description

Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • 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-2024-49117 is classified as CWE-393: Return of Wrong Status Code. A function or operation returns an incorrect return value or status code that does not indicate the true result of execution, causing the product to modify its behavior based on the incorrect result.

Affected software

CVE-2024-49117 is recorded against 6 packages.

  • windows-11-22h2 (fixed in 10.0.22621.4602)
  • windows-11-23h2 (fixed in 10.0.22631.4602)
  • windows-11-24h2 (fixed in 10.0.26100.2605)
  • windows-server-2022 (fixed in 10.0.20348.2966)
  • windows-server-2022-23h2 (fixed in 10.0.25398.1308)
  • windows-server-2025 (fixed in 10.0.26100.2605)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 December 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

msrc.microsoft.com

Other advisories for this package

windows-11-22h2 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-393: Return of Wrong Status Code) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-393
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
windows-11-22h2 10.0.22621.4602
windows-11-23h2 10.0.22631.4602
windows-11-24h2 10.0.26100.2605
windows-server-2022 10.0.20348.2966
windows-server-2022-23h2 10.0.25398.1308
windows-server-2025 10.0.26100.2605

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