Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-30056

Microsoft Edge Chromium ≤ 124.0.2478.109

Published
25 May 2024
Modified
08 January 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 7.1
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.016 73th percentile
Risk Priority 63 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-30056 is a high-severity Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor (CWE-359) vulnerability in Microsoft Edge Chromium. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Local System (T1005); ranked in the top 27% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-21 (Information Sharing) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — 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.

Microsoft Edge, the Chromium-based web browser from Microsoft, contains an information disclosure vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-30056. The flaw is classified under CWE-359 and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.1, reflecting network attack vectors that require low complexity, no privileges, and only user interaction to trigger high-impact confidentiality exposure along with limited integrity effects.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the issue by serving malicious web content that a user visits in Edge, resulting in unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information from the browser process and a secondary integrity impact without affecting availability.

Microsoft has published official guidance and remediation details for the vulnerability in its security update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30056. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at 0.0972 since disclosure with no material increase observed.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
T1025 Data from Removable Media Collection
Adversaries may search connected removable media on computers they have compromised to find files of interest.
T1039 Data from Network Shared Drive Collection
Adversaries may search network shares on computers they have compromised to find files of interest.
T1114 Email Collection Collection
Adversaries may target user email to collect sensitive information.
T1213 Data from Information Repositories Collection
Adversaries may leverage information repositories to mine valuable information.
T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Collection
Adversaries may access data from cloud storage.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

microsoft
edge chromium
≤ 124.0.2478.109

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 2 hardening rules · 2 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V10.3.5
  • V10.7.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Enforces authorizations so that PII is not reachable by unauthorized actors.

Requires explicit verification that a recipient's authorizations match the sensitivity of shared PII.

Limits granted rights to the minimum needed, reducing the set of actors who can reach private data.

Documents the legal or consent basis required before any processing of PII occurs.

PT-4 Consent good match

Implements consent mechanisms that directly block access absent the individual's permission.

Encrypts or otherwise protects stored PII against unauthorized retrieval.

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.

RC.CO-04 partial match
degrades

CWE-359 does not impair RC.CO-04's ability to issue approved public recovery updates, yet any resulting PII exposure can partially undermine the outcome's overall efficacy and trust.

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.

prevents

Masking or anonymizing personal identifiers limits the amount of private personal information that can be disclosed through application outputs or logs.

prevents

Monitoring and quarantining outbound messages that contain personal or private data directly reduces the chance that such information will be disclosed to unauthorized recipients.

prevents

The explicit prohibition on copying personally identifiable information into development and test environments directly lowers the exposure of private personal data to staff or processes that should not see it.

mitigates

Labeling, chain-of-custody, and access-control requirements limit the exposure of private personal information during any transfer method.

prevents

Mandating privacy procedures and a designated privacy officer helps ensure that private personal information is not disclosed without proper authorization or necessity.

mitigates

The agreements impose enforceable restrictions on the handling of private personal information, thereby decreasing the risk that such data will be exposed to unauthorized parties.

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).

Ubuntu 22.04 (1 rule)
  • V-260531 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must configure the SSH daemon to use FIPS 140-3-approved ciphers to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of information and/or detect changes to information during transmission. prevents CWE-359
Ubuntu 24.04 (1 rule)
  • V-270670 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS must configure the SSH client to use FIPS 140-3 approved ciphers to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of information and/or detect changes to information during transmission. prevents CWE-359

References