Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Exploited according to Microsoft — Exploitation Detected. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
An attacker must send the user a malicious file and convince them to open it.
How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker could send the targeted user a specially crafted file that is designed to bypass displayed security checks. However, the attacker would have no way to force a user to view the attacker-controlled content. Instead, the attacker would have to convince them to take action by clicking on the file link.
Security updates
10.0.22000.2777 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034766
10.0.17763.5458 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034768
10.0.19044.4046 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034763
10.0.20348.2322 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034770
10.0.22621.3155 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034765
10.0.25398.709 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5034769
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1
Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
KEV Feb 13, 2024
Revision history
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#2
Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2024-21412 Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21412
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss