Coverage › CVE-2024-38178
CVE-2024-38178 Unmapped
Microsoft Windows Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Windows
- Description (CISA)
- Microsoft Windows Scripting Engine contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attacker to initiate remote code execution via a specially crafted URL.
- Added to KEV
- 2024-08-13
- Due date
- 2024-09-03
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-843
- CISA notes
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38178
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38178 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2024-38178. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-843) — here is why — and does not guess.
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