#vulnerability

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking an authenticated user (UI:R) into attempting to connect to a malicious SQL server database via a connection driver (for example: OLE DB or OLEDB as applicable). This could result in the database returning malicious data that could cause arbitrary code execution on the client.

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking an authenticated user (UI:R) into attempting to connect to a malicious SQL server database via a connection driver (for example: OLE DB or OLEDB as applicable). This could result in the database returning malicious data that could cause arbitrary code execution on the client.

**Why is this CERT/CC CVE included in the Security Update Guide?** A vulnerability exists in the RADIUS protocol that potentially affects many products and implementations of the RFC 2865 in the UDP version of the RADIUS protocol. In brief, RADIUS protocol (RFC 2865) is susceptible to forgery attacks that can modify Access-Accept or Access-Reject RADIUS response. CERT/CC assigned a CVE ID for this vulnerability which all vendors are using for their affected products. Please see KB5040268: How to manage the Access-Request packets attack vulnerability associated with CVE-2024-3596 for information on additional steps that should be done to protect your environment from this vulnerability.

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?** The word **Remote** in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. For example, when the score indicates that the **Attack Vector** is **Local** and **User Interaction** is **Required**, this could describe an exploit in which an attacker, through social engineering, convinces a victim to download and open a specially crafted file from a website which leads to a local attack on their computer.

**According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required  is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** An authorized attacker must send the user a malicious file and convince the user to open it.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is data inside the targeted website like IDs, tokens, cryptographic nonces, and other sensitive information.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

The following mitigating factor might be helpful in your situation: To be exploitable by this vulnerability the Windows Fax Service has to be installed and configured. If Windows Fax Service is enabled, consider disabling it until you have installed this update that addresses this vulnerability.