CVE-2024-49062
Published: 12 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-49062 is a medium-severity Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23) vulnerability in Microsoft Sharepoint Server. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 22.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Microsoft SharePoint contains an information disclosure vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-49062. The flaw is rated 6.5 under CVSS 3.1 with an attack vector of network, low complexity, and low privileges required, resulting in high impact to confidentiality while leaving integrity and availability unaffected. It is associated with CWE-23.
An authenticated attacker with low privileges can send crafted requests over the network to access sensitive information stored in SharePoint without any user interaction. The unchanged scope indicates the exposure remains confined to the targeted SharePoint instance.
The official Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49062 provides mitigation guidance and patch information. Exploitation probability rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.0821 on 2025-12-18 before receding to the current value of 0.0104, indicating a period of increased interest following disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-43927
Vulnerability details
Microsoft SharePoint Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.