How a Windows zero-day was exploited in the wild for months

Posted under: SMB
Date: 2024-11-15
How a Windows zero-day was exploited in the wild for months

CVE-2024-43451, a Windows zero-day vulnerability for which Microsoft released a fix on November 2024 Patch Tuesday, has been exploited since at least April 2024. It affects all supported Windows versions and, when triggered, discloses a user’s NTLMv2 hash to the attacker. The result is in both cases the same: the attacker can authenticate to the target system as the user.

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