CVE-2024-43468 — Configuration Manager 2403
CRITICALCVE-2024-43468 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in microsoft configuration manager 2403. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-02-12) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Microsoft Configuration Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-02-12. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2026-03-05.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-43468.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-43468 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 50–90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Microsoft Configuration Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Affected Products
configuration manager 2403microsoftconfiguration manager 2409microsoftconfiguration manager 2503microsoftResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every microsoft configuration manager 2403 deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-43468 yet — track the microsoft configuration manager 2403 advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Until you can upgrade, make sure every query built from user input uses parameterised statements or a prepared-statement API rather than string concatenation, and reduce the database account's privileges so an injected query cannot read or alter data beyond what the feature needs. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-43468 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.