Last updated at Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:15:18 GMT

It’s June 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is addressing 51 vulnerabilities today, and has evidence of public disclosure for just a single one of those. At time of writing, none of the vulnerabilities published today are listed on CISA KEV, although this is always subject to change. Microsoft is patching a single critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability today. Seven browser vulnerabilities were published separately this month, and are not included in the total.

MSMQ: critical RCE

The sole critical RCE patched today is CVE-2024-30080 for all current versions of Windows. Exploitation requires that an attacker send a specially crafted malicious packet to an MSMQ server, which Patch Tuesday watchers will know as a perennial source of vulnerabilities. As usual, Microsoft points out that the Windows message queuing service is not enabled by default; as usual, Rapid7 notes that a number of applications – including Microsoft Exchange – quietly introduce MSMQ as part of their own installation routine. As is typical of MSMQ RCE vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-30080 receives a high CVSSv3 base score due to the network attack vector, low attack complexity, and lack of required privileges. Code execution is presumably in a SYSTEM context, although the advisory does not specify.

Office: malicious file RCEs

Microsoft Office receives patches for a pair of RCE-via-malicious-file vulnerabilities. CVE-2024-30101 is a vulnerability in Outlook; although the Preview Pane is a vector, the user must subsequently perform unspecified specific actions to trigger the vulnerability and the attacker must win a race condition. On the other hand, CVE-2024-30104 does not have the Preview Pane as a vector, but nevertheless ends up with a slightly higher CVSS base score of 7.8, since exploitation relies solely on the user opening a malicious file.

SharePoint: RCE

This month also brings a patch for SharePoint RCE CVE-2024-30100. The advisory is sparing on details, and the context of code exploitation is not clear. The weakness is described as CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path; many (but not all) vulnerabilities associated with CWE-426 lead to elevation of privilege.

DNSSEC NSEC3: CPU exhaustion DoS

And now for something completely different: ​​CVE-2023-50868, which describes a denial of service vulnerability in DNSSEC. This vulnerability is present in the DNSSEC spec itself, and the CVE was assigned by MITRE on behalf of DNSSEC. Microsoft’s implementation of DNSSEC is thus subject to the same attack as other implementations. An attacker can exhaust CPU resources on a DNSSEC-validating DNS resolver by demanding responses from a DNSSEC-signed zone, if the resolver uses NSEC3 to respond to the request. NSEC3 is designed to provide a safe way for a DNSSEC-validating DNS resolver to indicate that a requested resource does not exist. Under certain circumstances, the DNS resolver must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function to calculate an NSEC3 response, and this is the foundation on which this DoS exploit rests. All current versions of Windows Server receive a patch today.

Typically, when Microsoft publishes a security advisory and describes the vulnerability as publicly disclosed, that public disclosure will have been recent. However, in the case of CVE-2023-50868, the flaw in DNSSEC was first publicly disclosed on 2024-02-13. The advisory acknowledges four academics from the German National Research Centre for Applied Cybersecurity (ATHENE), which is perhaps of interest since these same researchers are authors on a March 2024 academic paper that downplays the DoS potential of CVE-2023-50868. Those same researchers published another DNSSEC flaw CVE-2023-50387 (also known as KeyTrap) in January 2024, which they describe as having potentially serious implications; Microsoft patched that one at the next scheduled opportunity in February. The CVE-2023-50868 advisory published today does not provide further insight as to why this vulnerability wasn’t patched sooner; a reasonable assumption might be that Microsoft assesses CVE-2023-50868 as less urgent/critical than CVE-2023-50387, although both receive a rating of Important on Microsoft’s proprietary severity ranking scale. It’s also possible that Microsoft does not wish to be the only major server OS vendor without a patch.

Lifecycle update

There are no significant changes to the lifecycle phase of Microsoft products this month. In July, Microsoft SQL Server 2014 will move past the end of extended support. From August onwards, Microsoft only guarantees to provide SQL Server 2014 security updates to customers who choose to participate in the paid Extended Security Updates program.

Summary Charts

A bar chart showing the distribution of vulnerabilities by impact type for Microsoft Patch Tuesday June 2024.
What goes up must come down and/or is an attacker's privilege level.
A heatmap showing the distribution of vulnerabilities by impact and affected component for Microsoft Patch Tuesday June
No spoofing. No security feature bypass. Plenty of elevation of privilege though.


Summary Tables

Azure vulnerabilities

CVE Title Exploited? Publicly disclosed? CVSSv3 base score
CVE-2024-37325 Azure Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 8.1
CVE-2024-35252 Azure Storage Movement Client Library Denial of Service Vulnerability No No 7.5
CVE-2024-35254 Azure Monitor Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.1
CVE-2024-35255 Azure Identity Libraries and Microsoft Authentication Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 5.5
CVE-2024-35253 Microsoft Azure File Sync Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 4.4

Browser vulnerabilities

CVE Title Exploited? Publicly disclosed? CVSSv3 base score
CVE-2024-5499 Chromium: CVE-2024-5499 Out of bounds write in Streams API No No N/A
CVE-2024-5498 Chromium: CVE-2024-5498 Use after free in Presentation API No No N/A
CVE-2024-5497 Chromium: CVE-2024-5497 Out of bounds memory access in Keyboard Inputs No No N/A
CVE-2024-5496 Chromium: CVE-2024-5496 Use after free in Media Session No No N/A
CVE-2024-5495 Chromium: CVE-2024-5495 Use after free in Dawn No No N/A
CVE-2024-5494 Chromium: CVE-2024-5494 Use after free in Dawn No No N/A
CVE-2024-5493 Chromium: CVE-2024-5493 Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC No No N/A

Developer Tools vulnerabilities

CVE Title Exploited? Publicly disclosed? CVSSv3 base score
CVE-2024-29187 GitHub: CVE-2024-29187 WiX Burn-based bundles are vulnerable to binary hijack when run as SYSTEM No No 7.3
CVE-2024-29060 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 6.7
CVE-2024-30052 Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 4.7

ESU vulnerabilities

CVE Title Exploited? Publicly disclosed? CVSSv3 base score
CVE-2024-30074 Windows Link Layer Topology Discovery Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 8
CVE-2024-30075 Windows Link Layer Topology Discovery Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 8

Microsoft Dynamics vulnerabilities

CVE Title Exploited? Publicly disclosed? CVSSv3 base score
CVE-2024-35249 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 8.8
CVE-2024-35248 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.3
CVE-2024-35263 Microsoft Dynamics 365 (On-Premises) Information Disclosure Vulnerability No No 5.7

Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

CVE Title Exploited? Publicly disclosed? CVSSv3 base score
CVE-2024-30103 Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 8.8
CVE-2024-30100 Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30104 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30101 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 7.5
CVE-2024-30102 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 7.3

Windows vulnerabilities

CVE Title Exploited? Publicly disclosed? CVSSv3 base score
CVE-2024-30064 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 8.8
CVE-2024-30068 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 8.8
CVE-2024-30097 Microsoft Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 8.8
CVE-2024-30085 Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30089 Microsoft Streaming Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30072 Microsoft Event Trace Log File Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-35265 Windows Perception Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7
CVE-2024-30088 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7
CVE-2024-30099 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7
CVE-2024-30076 Windows Container Manager Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 6.8
CVE-2024-30096 Windows Cryptographic Services Information Disclosure Vulnerability No No 5.5
CVE-2024-30069 Windows Remote Access Connection Manager Information Disclosure Vulnerability No No 4.7

Windows ESU vulnerabilities

CVE Title Exploited? Publicly disclosed? CVSSv3 base score
CVE-2024-30080 Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 9.8
CVE-2024-30078 Windows Wi-Fi Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 8.8
CVE-2024-30077 Windows OLE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 8
CVE-2024-30086 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30062 Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30094 Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30095 Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-35250 Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30082 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30087 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30091 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.8
CVE-2024-30083 Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service Denial of Service Vulnerability No No 7.5
CVE-2023-50868 MITRE: CVE-2023-50868 NSEC3 closest encloser proof can exhaust CPU No Yes 7.5
CVE-2024-30070 DHCP Server Service Denial of Service Vulnerability No No 7.5
CVE-2024-30093 Windows Storage Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7.3
CVE-2024-30084 Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7
CVE-2024-30090 Microsoft Streaming Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 7
CVE-2024-30063 Windows Distributed File System (DFS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability No No 6.7
CVE-2024-30066 Winlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 5.5
CVE-2024-30067 Winlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability No No 5.5
CVE-2024-30065 Windows Themes Denial of Service Vulnerability No No 5.5

Updates

  • 2024-06-12: Corrected a typo in a reference to CVE-2023-50868.

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