CVE-2024-30040

CRITICALNVD 8.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-05-14), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Exploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2024-27980 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 3.9%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Windows MSHTML Platform Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
80
EG Risk 80/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
3.9%
EPSS %ILE
90th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
3.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30040 · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-30040

Published

May 14, 2024

Last Modified

October 7, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Nov 9, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: microsoft.
Microsoft

Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30040
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-30040

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2024-30040(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 0× in last 7d / 0× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  2. 2026-11-13 13:12 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-13 13:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  4. 2026-11-12 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  5. 2026-11-12 15:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  6. 2026-11-11 16:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-11 16:57 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-11 16:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  9. 2026-11-11 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  10. 2026-11-10 18:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-10 18:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  12. 2026-11-10 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  13. 2026-11-09 20:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-09 20:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  15. 2026-11-09 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  16. 2026-11-08 22:42 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-11-08 22:42 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-11-08 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  19. 2026-11-08 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  20. 2026-11-08 00:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-11-08 00:37 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-11-08 00:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  23. 2026-11-07 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  24. 2026-11-07 02:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-11-07 02:33 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-11-07 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  2. 2026-11-06 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  3. 2026-11-06 04:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  4. 2026-11-06 04:27 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-11-06 04:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  6. 2026-11-05 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  7. 2026-11-05 06:23 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-05 06:23 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-11-05 06:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  10. 2026-11-04 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  11. 2026-11-04 08:18 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-04 08:18 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-11-04 08:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  14. 2026-11-03 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  15. 2026-11-03 10:12 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  16. 2026-11-03 10:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  17. 2026-11-02 12:04 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-02 12:04 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-11-02 12:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  20. 2026-11-01 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  21. 2026-11-01 13:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-11-01 13:58 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-11-01 13:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  24. 2026-10-31 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  25. 2026-10-31 15:54 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-31 15:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  27. 2026-10-30 17:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  28. 2026-10-30 17:48 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-30 17:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  30. 2026-10-30 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  31. 2026-10-29 19:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  32. 2026-10-29 19:44 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-29 19:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  34. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  35. 2026-10-28 21:38 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  36. 2026-10-28 21:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  37. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  38. 2026-10-27 23:34 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  39. 2026-10-27 23:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  40. 2026-10-27 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  41. 2026-10-27 01:29 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  42. 2026-10-27 01:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  43. 2026-10-26 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  44. 2026-10-26 03:24 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-26 03:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  46. 2026-10-25 17:13 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  47. 2026-10-25 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  48. 2026-10-25 05:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  49. 2026-10-25 05:19 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-25 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  51. 2026-10-24 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  52. 2026-10-24 07:14 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  53. 2026-10-24 07:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  54. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  55. 2026-10-23 09:09 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  56. 2026-10-23 09:09 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-23 09:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  58. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  59. 2026-10-22 11:03 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  60. 2026-10-22 11:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  61. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  62. 2026-10-21 12:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  63. 2026-10-21 12:57 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-21 12:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  65. 2026-10-20 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  66. 2026-10-20 14:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  67. 2026-10-19 16:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  68. 2026-10-19 16:46 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-19 16:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  70. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  71. 2026-10-18 18:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  72. 2026-10-18 18:41 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-18 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmh4-cvwv-5vmm · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  74. 2026-10-18 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  75. 2026-10-18 07:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2024-30040?
CVE-2024-30040 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 14, 2024. Windows MSHTML Platform Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
When was CVE-2024-30040 made public?
CVE-2024-30040 was made public on May 14, 2024: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Microsoft Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on May 14, 2024. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 7, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2024-30040 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2024-30040 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 14, 2024, affecting Microsoft Windows. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-30040?
CVE-2024-30040 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2024-30040?
CVE-2024-30040 affects Microsoft Windows.
How do I remediate CVE-2024-30040?
A fix for CVE-2024-30040 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2024-30040 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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