Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2024-29050 is a high-severity Numeric Truncation Error (CWE-197) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Adversary-in-the-Middle (T1557); ranked in the top 33% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SC-17 (Public Key Infrastructure Certificates) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
Windows Cryptographic Services contains a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-29050. The flaw affects the Windows cryptographic component and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.4 with an attack vector of local access, no privileges required, and no user interaction needed, resulting in full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
An unauthenticated local attacker can exploit the issue to execute arbitrary code on the affected system. The combination of local vector and high impact allows an adversary who already has a foothold on the machine to elevate privileges or achieve full control without additional credentials or user assistance.
Microsoft has published guidance and patches for the vulnerability through its Security Response Center at the listed advisory URL. Administrators should apply the updates referenced in the Microsoft advisory to address the weakness.
The EPSS score has reached a peak and current value of 0.3830 with no indicated rise after disclosure.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-26097
Vulnerability Data
Windows Cryptographic Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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- 12 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover truncation errors through static analysis, dynamic testing, or code review.
PKI certificate issuance and acquisition under an approved policy establishes the trusted roots and processes needed for correct validation.
Documented development standards and tools can mandate use of safe arithmetic libraries or explicit checks against truncation.
Engineering principles can require safe type conversions and avoidance of narrowing casts that cause truncation.
Protecting session authenticity depends on cryptographic mechanisms whose trust depends on correct certificate validation.
Requiring confidentiality and integrity protection of transmitted data drives use of properly validated certificates in protocols such as TLS.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Certificate-based authentication of users/services/hardware directly depends on correct validation.
Proper certificate validation is a core mechanism for protecting data-in-transit confidentiality and integrity.
Secure SDLC practices directly prevent truncation errors via reviews, static analysis, and safe type handling.
Assessing authenticity/integrity of acquired software often relies on code-signing certificate validation.
Identity assertions conveyed via certificates require validation to be verified.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing can detect truncation bugs through static analysis and fuzzing.
Requiring issuance and validation of public-key certificates under an approved policy reduces the chance that certificates with improper validation will be trusted.
Secure development lifecycle mandates practices that can catch numeric truncation during design and code review.
Application security requirements can specify safe numeric handling and data-type constraints.
Secure architecture principles include choosing appropriate data types and avoiding unsafe casts.
Secure coding standards directly prohibit unsafe narrowing conversions and truncation.
Hardening callouts derived
Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).
Oracle Linux 8 (3 rules)
- V-248574 YUM must be configured to prevent the installation of patches, service packs, device drivers, or OL 8 system components that have not been digitally signed using a certificate that is recognized and approved by the organization. prevents CWE-295
- V-248531 OL 8, for PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor. prevents CWE-295
- V-248575 OL 8 must prevent the installation of software, patches, service packs, device drivers, or operating system components of local packages without verification they have been digitally signed using a certificate that is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is recognized and approved by the organization. prevents CWE-295
RHEL 7 (2 rules)
- V-204447 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must prevent the installation of software, patches, service packs, device drivers, or operating system components from a repository without verification they have been digitally signed using a certificate that is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is recognized and approved by the organization. prevents CWE-295
- V-204448 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must prevent the installation of software, patches, service packs, device drivers, or operating system components of local packages without verification they have been digitally signed using a certificate that is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is recognized and approved by the organization. prevents CWE-295
RHEL 8 (2 rules)
- V-230264 RHEL 8 must prevent the installation of software, patches, service packs, device drivers, or operating system components from a repository without verification they have been digitally signed using a certificate that is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is recognized and approved by the organization. prevents CWE-295
- V-230265 RHEL 8 must prevent the installation of software, patches, service packs, device drivers, or operating system components of local packages without verification they have been digitally signed using a certificate that is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is recognized and approved by the organization. prevents CWE-295