Windows File Explorer Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Security Vulnerability

Released: Dec 10, 2024

Assigning CNA
Microsoft
CVE.org link
CVE-2024-49082
Impact
Information Disclosure
Max Severity
Important
Weakness
CVSS Source
Microsoft
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Please see Common Vulnerability Scoring System for more information on the definition of these metrics.

Exploitability

The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.

Publicly disclosed
No
Exploited
No
Exploitability assessment
Exploitation Less Likely

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required are none (PR:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

An unauthorized attacker must wait for a user to initiate a connection.

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?

The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is the contents of the user's folders and personal data.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires multiple conditions to be met, such as specific application behavior, user actions, manipulation of parameters passed to a function, and impersonation of an integrity level token.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires the victim to perform a specific file management operation to trigger the vulnerability.

Acknowledgements

  • st4nly0n working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
Microsoft recognizes the efforts of those in the security community who help us protect customers through coordinated vulnerability disclosure. See Acknowledgements for more information.

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