CVE-2024-43580: CWE-357: Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Microsoft Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
CVE-2024-43580 is a medium severity vulnerability in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) involving insufficient user interface warnings for dangerous operations, classified under CWE-357. This spoofing vulnerability could potentially mislead users about the nature of certain operations within the browser. An official fix is available from Microsoft to address this issue.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-43580, affects Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) and is categorized as CWE-357: Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations. It allows for spoofing attacks by failing to adequately warn users about potentially dangerous operations within the browser UI. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 5.4 (medium severity), reflecting network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required, and impacts on confidentiality and integrity. Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability could allow attackers to spoof UI elements in Microsoft Edge, potentially misleading users into performing unsafe actions. The impact includes limited confidentiality and integrity loss but no availability impact. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft for this vulnerability. Users and administrators should apply the latest security updates for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) to remediate this issue.
CVE-2024-43580: CWE-357: Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations in Microsoft Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
Description
CVE-2024-43580 is a medium severity vulnerability in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) involving insufficient user interface warnings for dangerous operations, classified under CWE-357. This spoofing vulnerability could potentially mislead users about the nature of certain operations within the browser. An official fix is available from Microsoft to address this issue.
CVSS v3.1
Score 5.4medium
Affected software
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-43580, affects Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) and is categorized as CWE-357: Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations. It allows for spoofing attacks by failing to adequately warn users about potentially dangerous operations within the browser UI. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 5.4 (medium severity), reflecting network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required, and impacts on confidentiality and integrity. Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability could allow attackers to spoof UI elements in Microsoft Edge, potentially misleading users into performing unsafe actions. The impact includes limited confidentiality and integrity loss but no availability impact. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft for this vulnerability. Users and administrators should apply the latest security updates for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) to remediate this issue.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- microsoft
- Date Reserved
- 2024-08-14T01:08:33.546Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
Threat ID: 6a2867258dd33fbd85723209
Added to database: 06/09/2026, 19:19:01 UTC
Last enriched: 08/21/2026, 11:16:06 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:48 UTC
Views: 140
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