CVE-2024-38250: CWE-126: Buffer Over-read in Microsoft Microsoft Office for Android
Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-38250, is a buffer over-read flaw in Microsoft Office for Android's Windows Graphics Component that could allow elevation of privilege. The CVSS v3.1 score is 7.8 (high), indicating significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability affects specific versions of Microsoft Office for Android (=10.0.17763.0 and =16.0.1). Microsoft has issued an official fix, as documented in their security update guide.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could lead to elevation of privilege, potentially allowing an attacker with limited permissions to gain higher privileges on the affected system. The impact includes high confidentiality, integrity, and availability consequences as per the CVSS score.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users and administrators should apply the security updates provided by Microsoft for the affected versions to remediate this vulnerability. Refer to the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38250 for detailed update instructions.
CVE-2024-38250: CWE-126: Buffer Over-read in Microsoft Microsoft Office for Android
Description
Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.8high
Affected software
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-38250, is a buffer over-read flaw in Microsoft Office for Android's Windows Graphics Component that could allow elevation of privilege. The CVSS v3.1 score is 7.8 (high), indicating significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability affects specific versions of Microsoft Office for Android (=10.0.17763.0 and =16.0.1). Microsoft has issued an official fix, as documented in their security update guide.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could lead to elevation of privilege, potentially allowing an attacker with limited permissions to gain higher privileges on the affected system. The impact includes high confidentiality, integrity, and availability consequences as per the CVSS score.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users and administrators should apply the security updates provided by Microsoft for the affected versions to remediate this vulnerability. Refer to the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38250 for detailed update instructions.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- microsoft
- Date Reserved
- 2024-06-11T22:36:08.233Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38250","vendor":"Microsoft"}]
Threat ID: 699f6c77b7ef31ef0b564b2b
Added to database: 02/25/2026, 21:41:11 UTC
Last enriched: 08/11/2026, 15:53:06 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:48 UTC
Views: 90
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