Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-49071

Medium

Published: 12 December 2024

Published
12 December 2024
Modified
10 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0106 78.1th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-49071 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization of Index Containing Sensitive Information (CWE-612) vulnerability in Microsoft Defender For Endpoint. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 21.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper authorization of an index that contains sensitive information from a Global Files search in Windows Defender allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network.

CWE(s)
CWE-612NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
defender for endpoint
all versions

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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