CVE-2024-3566
Command injection vulnerability in programing languages on Microsoft Windows operating system.
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- certcc
Description
A command inject vulnerability allows an attacker to perform command injection on Windows applications that indirectly depend on the CreateProcess function when the specific conditions are satisfied.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
Published
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.8% · top 5.9% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
- CWE-77 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-77 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected ≤ 21.7.2
Go Programming Language · GoLang
- affected *
Haskell Programming Language · Haskel
- affected *
References (8)
- https://flatt.tech/research/posts/batbadbut-you-cant-securely-execute-commands-on-windows/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/twistylittlepassagesallalike/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/123335 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24576 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1874 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22423 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/123335 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/nu11secur1ty/Windows11Exploits/tree/main/2024/CVE-2024-3566 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-3566)Record last updated .