CVE-2024-43474: CWE-170: Improper Null Termination in Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (CU 31)
Microsoft SQL Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-43474 and classified under CWE-170 (Improper Null Termination), affects Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (CU 31). It allows information disclosure due to improper handling of null termination in the software. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.6, indicating high severity, with network attack vector, low attack complexity, and requiring low privileges but no user interaction. The vulnerability impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability to varying degrees. Microsoft has published an official fix to remediate this issue.
Potential Impact
An attacker with low privileges could exploit this vulnerability to disclose sensitive information from the affected Microsoft SQL Server instance. The impact includes high confidentiality loss, low integrity loss, and low availability loss. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users of Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (CU 31) should apply the security update provided in the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43474 to remediate this vulnerability.
CVE-2024-43474: CWE-170: Improper Null Termination in Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (CU 31)
Description
Microsoft SQL Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.6high
Affected software
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-43474 and classified under CWE-170 (Improper Null Termination), affects Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (CU 31). It allows information disclosure due to improper handling of null termination in the software. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.6, indicating high severity, with network attack vector, low attack complexity, and requiring low privileges but no user interaction. The vulnerability impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability to varying degrees. Microsoft has published an official fix to remediate this issue.
Potential Impact
An attacker with low privileges could exploit this vulnerability to disclose sensitive information from the affected Microsoft SQL Server instance. The impact includes high confidentiality loss, low integrity loss, and low availability loss. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users of Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (CU 31) should apply the security update provided in the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43474 to remediate this vulnerability.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- microsoft
- Date Reserved
- 2024-08-14T01:08:33.517Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43474","vendor":"Microsoft"}]
Threat ID: 699f6cd8b7ef31ef0b56983c
Added to database: 02/25/2026, 21:42:48 UTC
Last enriched: 08/11/2026, 15:57:12 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:48 UTC
Views: 118
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