CVE-2024-43625
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedMicrosoft Windows VMSwitch Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisMemory is used after it has been freed, so its contents — now potentially attacker-controlled — drive the program's behaviour. With careful heap grooming this becomes code execution. The fix requires disciplined ownership of memory and often a targeted rework of the object lifecycle.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data< 10.0.22621.4460< 10.0.22631.4460< 10.0.26100.2314< 10.0.20348.2849< 10.0.25398.1251< 10.0.26100.2314CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped10.0.20348.284910.0.22621.446010.0.22631.4460
Windows 11 22h2: build 10.0.22621.4460 or later | Windows 11 23h2: build 10.0.22631.4460 or later | Windows 11 24h2: build 10.0.26100.2314 or later | Windows Server 2022: build 10.0.20348.2849 or later | Windows Server 2022 23h2: build 10.0.25398.1251 or later | Windows Server 2025: build 10.0.26100
- Navigate to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) portal at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43625
- Locate the security update for your specific Windows version from the table of affected products
- Download and install the appropriate Windows security update (KB) for your system version
- Restart the affected system after applying the security update
- Verify the installation was successful by checking the installed updates or system build version matches or exceeds the minimum fixed build number for your Windows version
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-43625 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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