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CVE-2024-29988

85
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-29988 is a critical SmartScreen Prompt Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), it allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog and numerous media reports detailing its use in malware attacks. Despite active exploitation, no public exploit code is currently available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.0.17763.5696CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
< 10.0.17763.5696CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
< 10.0.17763.5696CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
< 10.0.19044.4291CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 10.0.19045.4291CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
45.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Apr 30, 2024
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4515 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (21)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.5696
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.5696
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.5696
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2019Fixed in: 10.0.17763.5696
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.17763.5696
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2022Fixed in: 10.0.20348.2402
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.20348.2402
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22000.2899
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22000.2899
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19044.4291
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19044.4291
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19044.4291
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22621.3447
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22621.3447
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.4291
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.4291
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.4291
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22631.3447
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22631.3447
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.25398.830
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Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2024-Apr/CVE-2024-29988Important

SmartScreen Prompt Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Apr 9, 2024

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29988
PatchVendor Advisory