Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2024-38189

Microsoft Project Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Microsoft
Product Project
Weakness CWE-20

The vulnerability

Microsoft Project contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for remote code execution via a malicious file.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 3 September 2024 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

More from Microsoft