GroupMe Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Priority MEDIUM 45CWE-284Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from Microsoft.
Summary
An improper access control vulnerability in GroupMe allows an a unauthenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a network by convincing a user to click on a malicious link.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00952 61st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Microsoft
Microsoft's page for this CVE →
- Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- Exploited
- No
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Exploitability
- —
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-38164
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wg3w-75pp-j436
References
More Microsoft Groupme vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-25465 GroupMe Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-25459 GroupMe Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
Sources
- CVE-2024-38164 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-38164 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-wg3w-75pp-j436 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-38164 · Microsoft Security Update Guide
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