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CVE-2024-38217 Unmapped
Microsoft Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW) Protection Mechanism Failure Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Windows
- Description (CISA)
- Microsoft Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW) contains a protection mechanism failure vulnerability that allows an attacker to bypass MOTW-based defenses. This can result in a limited loss of integrity and availability of security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office, which rely on MOTW tagging.
- Added to KEV
- 2024-09-10
- Due date
- 2024-10-01
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-693
- CISA notes
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38217
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38217 - 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-2024-38217. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-693) — here is why — and does not guess.
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