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CVE-2024-49082 · Windows File Explorer Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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Severity
Important
Impact
Information Disclosure
CVSS
6.8 base · 5.9 temporal
Release
2024-12-10
Signals
Windows File Explorer Information Disclosure Exploited: No Publicly disclosed: No Exploitability: Exploitation Less Likely
CWE
CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
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Description
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FAQ
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required are none (PR:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability? An unauthorized attacker must wait for a user to initiate a connection.
FAQ
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability? The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is the contents of the user's folders and personal data.
FAQ
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires multiple conditions to be met, such as specific application behavior, user actions, manipulation of parameters passed to a function, and impersonation of an integrity level token.
FAQ
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires the victim to perform a specific file management operation to trigger the vulnerability.