Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Microsoft Edge - CVE-2024-49054
Published: November 23, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU100864
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-49054
CWE-ID: CWE-357
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of long URLs for a download domain, which leads to the main part of the domain URL being truncated. A remote attacker can trick the victim into downloading potentially dangerous content from an untrusted domain.
Affected software
Microsoft Edge
How to mitigate CVE-2024-49054
Install updates from vendor's website.
Microsoft Edge - update to 131.0.2903.63