CVE-2024-26197
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.5 of 10 (medium)
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Summary
CVE-2024-26197 is a newly disclosed Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting the Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service. Leveraging specially crafted requests, an attacker can cause the service to crash, leading to a denial of service condition for the affected system. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires no user interaction and can be performed remotely. Microsoft is currently working on a patch to address this issue, and users are urged to install it as soon as it becomes available to mitigate the risk. In the meantime, administrators are advised to enforce access control policies, monitor systems for unusual activity, and apply available workarounds to reduce the potential impact.
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