CVE-2024-43580

FAQ

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to minor loss of confidentiality (C:L), integrity (I:L), and availability (A:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability has limited impacts to Confidentiality and Integrity and no impact on Availability. An attacker would need to combine this vulnerability with other vulnerabilities to perform an attack.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is Low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

An authorized attacker with guest privileges must send a victim a malicious site and convince them to open it.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability via the Network?

An attacker could host a specially crafted website designed to exploit the vulnerability through Microsoft Edge and then convince a user to view the website. However, in all cases an attacker would have no way to force a user to view the attacker-controlled content. Instead, an attacker would have to convince a user to take action, typically by an enticement in an email or instant message, or by getting the user to open an attachment sent through email.

What is the version information for this release?