CVE-2024-26230

Published Apr 9, 2024

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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CVE-2024-26230 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability impacting the Windows Telephony Server component across various Microsoft Windows operating systems. This flaw is categorized as a Use After Free (CWE-416) memory corruption issue, which allows a local attacker with low privileges to escalate their access to higher privileges on an affected system. The vulnerability specifically resides within the `FreeDialogInstance` function in `tapisrv.dll`, where improper memory handling can lead to a dangling pointer scenario. Exploitation of CVE-2024-26230 requires an attacker to first gain local access to the target system. Once local access is established, the attacker can trigger specific telephony API calls that prematurely free memory. Subsequently, the attacker can allocate new memory in the same region with malicious content, leading to arbitrary code execution with elevated privileges, potentially reaching SYSTEM-level access.

Description
Windows Telephony Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Source
secure@microsoft.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
windows_10_1507, windows_10_1607, windows_10_1809, windows_10_21h2, windows_10_22h2, windows_11_21h2, windows_11_22h2, windows_11_23h2, windows_server_2008, windows_server_2012, windows_server_2016, windows_server_2019, windows_server_2022, windows_server_2022_23h2

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

secure@microsoft.com
CWE-416
nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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