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Low MSRC-CVE-2024-29986 1 CVE

Microsoft Edge for Android (Chromium-based) Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published Apr 9, 2024 · Updated Apr 18, 2024

Summary

Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Low. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

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 sensitive information.

Why is the severity for this CVE rated as Moderate, but the CVSS score is higher than normal?
Per our severity guidelines, the amount of user interaction or preconditions required to allow this sort of exploitation downgraded the severity, specifically it says, "If a bug requires more than a click, a key press, or several preconditions, the severity will be downgraded". The CVSS scoring system doesn't allow for this type of nuance.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user would have to click on a specially crafted URL to be compromised by the attacker.

Security updates
124.0.2478.51 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

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    Information published.

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