Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-29998

Medium

Published: 14 May 2024

Published
14 May 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0025 48.3th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-29998 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1809. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Windows Mobile Broadband Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.5820
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.4412
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.4412
microsoft
windows 11 21h2
≤ 10.0.22000.2960
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.3593
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.3593
microsoft
windows server 2019
≤ 10.0.17763.5820
microsoft
windows server 2022
≤ 10.0.20348.2458
microsoft
windows server 2022 23h2
≤ 10.0.25398.887

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

References