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CVE-2024-43451

Exploitation: active CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS base score: 6.5 (Medium) vendor CNA · v3.1

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Microsoft Windows NTLMv2 Hash Disclosure Spoofing Vulnerability

Vendor: Microsoft   Product: Windows

Description

Microsoft Windows contains an NTLMv2 hash spoofing vulnerability that could result in disclosing a user's NTLMv2 hash to an attacker via a file open operation. The attacker could then leverage this hash to impersonate that user.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2024-11-13 2024-116: Microsoft November 2024 Patch Tuesday CERT-EU

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 152 points from 2024-11-16, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 91.1% on 2025-05-10.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 24 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Detection & Exploitation

Exploit / Pen Test
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB, public GitHub repositories and NVD exploit references (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and filtered to repositories that are still online, contain code, and are starred or at least two weeks old. They are still not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
NVD exploit references are links NVD's analysts tag as exploits; they confirm an exploit was referenced but carry no date. This product uses data from the NVD but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

First seenToolEvidenceEarliest reference
2026-07-23 GitHub PoC Unvetted — public repository razureink/cve-2024-43451-ntlm_hash_disclosure_reproduction

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Microsoft Assessment

published by the affected vendor via MSRC

NTLM Hash Disclosure Spoofing Vulnerability

Exploitation Detected
Yes
Yes
Important
Spoofing
Windows NTLM
2024-11-12

The vendor's own judgement about their own code, shown alongside CISA's rather than merged into it. The exploitability index is a forward-looking prediction, distinct from a CVSS severity or CISA's SSVC decision, and vendors often report observed exploitation before a CVE reaches the KEV catalog. Vendor advisory →

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
no
partial
—
6.5 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
CWE-73 — External Control of File Name or Path
2024-11-13

Federal Remediation Window (BOD 26-04)

Yes — added 2024-11-12
no
partial control
If the asset isRemediate withinTable 1 row
Publicly exposed 14 days 4 of 16
Not publicly exposed 14 days 12 of 16

BOD 26-04 replaced the single KEV deadline of BOD 22-01 with four inputs: whether the asset is publicly exposed, KEV status, whether exploitation is automatable, and technical impact. Exposure belongs to each agency's asset, not to the CVE, so both outcomes are shown. Automatable and technical impact come from the CISA assessment above. Days are calendar days; for KEV entries the clock starts on the date it was added. Agencies make the final exposure call asset by asset, and may set shorter timelines.

External References