Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?
In an email or instant message attack scenario, the attacker could send the targeted user a specially crafted file that is designed to exploit the remote code execution vulnerability.
In any case an attacker would have no way to force a user to view attacker-controlled content. Instead, an attacker would have to convince a user to take action. For example, an attacker could entice a user to either click a link that directs the user to the attacker's site or send a malicious attachment.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
A user needs to be tricked into running malicious files.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
To exploit this security feature bypass vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to launch malicious files using a launcher application that requests that no UI be shown.
Security updates
10.0.17763.5696 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036896
10.0.20348.2402 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036909
10.0.22000.2899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036894
10.0.19044.4291 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036892
10.0.22621.3447 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036893
10.0.25398.830 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5036910
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
SmartScreen Prompt Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
SmartScreen Prompt Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
KEV Apr 30, 2024
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-29988 SmartScreen Prompt Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29988
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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