CVE-2024-21412: Microsoft Windows Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name: Microsoft Windows Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Windows
Added to the catalog: 2024-02-13
Due date for US federal agencies: 2024-03-05
Weaknesses: CWE-693
Catalog version: 2026.10.30

Microsoft Windows Internet Shortcut Files contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for a security feature bypass.

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Ransomware use: CISA marks this vulnerability as known to be used in ransomware campaigns. CISA does not say which group used it.

Links in CISA's notes

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NVD analysis

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2024-02-13T18:15:59.903
Last modified: 2026-08-10T16:18:51.517
Weaknesses: CWE-693, NVD-CWE-noinfo

Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Metric	Score	Severity	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	8.1	HIGH	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	[email protected] (Secondary)

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21412 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21412 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-21412 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Title (CNA): Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Assigner: microsoft
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-02-13T18:02:49.184Z
Updated: 2026-08-10T17:53:06.323Z
Problem types: CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure

References

Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

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Defensive techniques (MITRE D3FEND)

D3FEND maps these defensive techniques to the weakness (CWE) that NVD lists for this CVE, through the digital artifacts the weakness affects. D3FEND does not say they stop this vulnerability.

CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure

Isolate: Application-based Process Isolation (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Software Update (acts on Software)
Model: Asset Vulnerability Enumeration (acts on Software)
Harden: Credential Scrubbing (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Variable Initialization (acts on Subroutine)
Restore: Restore Software (acts on Software)
Harden: Trusted Library (acts on Subroutine)
Model: Software Inventory (acts on Software)
Harden: Domain Logic Validation (acts on Subroutine)

D3FEND ontology version 1.6.0.

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Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "CVE-2024-21412: Microsoft Windows Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability",
entity page, dataset version ref-00e0c9b636f3, updated 2026-11-02T23:39:54.475Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/cve/CVE-2024-21412 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: CISA Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, version 2026.10.30.
Underlying source: National Vulnerability Database (NIST), CVE API 2.0, record last modified 2026-08-10T16:18:51.517.
Underlying source: CVE List (CVE Program, The MITRE Corporation), record updated 2026-08-10T17:53:06.323Z.
Underlying source: MITRE D3FEND, ontology version 1.6.0.

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