CVE-2024-38129

Summary

CVE-2024-38129 represents a newly disclosed Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege vulnerability. An attacker who successfully exploits this issue can elevate their user privileges, potentially gaining administrative access to a system. This vulnerability impacts the Kerberos authentication protocol, which is used to secure communications between computers on a Windows network. Exploitation could occur through specially crafted messages that are sent to a target system. Mitigations include applying Microsoft's security updates as soon as they become available and implementing multi-factor authentication where possible.

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