CVE-2024-38197 is a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Teams for iOS. According to the provided content, the issue allows an attacker to alter the sender name shown for a Teams message, enabling impersonation of trusted users and abuse of Teams’ trust model for social engineering. The surrounding research from Check Point indicates the broader class of Teams issues involved manipulation of message presentation, notifications, and display names to make communications appear to originate from executives, coworkers, or other trusted parties. For this CVE specifically, Microsoft characterized it as a medium-severity spoofing issue affecting Teams for iOS with a CVSS score of 6.5.
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A Microsoft Teams vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-38197 that allowed manipulation of Teams trust mechanisms, including editing messages without the visible edited marker, spoofing notifications, altering displayed chat names, and forging display names in call notifications for impersonation and conversation tampering.
A medium-severity spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Teams for iOS that allows alteration of the apparent sender name in Teams messages, enabling impersonation and social engineering attacks.
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