Vulnerability CVE-2017-8740

Vulnerability CVE-2017-8740

Published: 2017-09-12 Modified: 2017-09-13

Description:

Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 1703 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, due to the way that the Microsoft Edge scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8649, CVE-2017-8660, CVE-2017-8729, CVE-2017-8738, CVE-2017-8740, CVE-2017-8741, CVE-2017-8748, CVE-2017-8752, CVE-2017-8753, CVE-2017-8755, CVE-2017-8756, and CVE-2017-11764.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Med.	Microsoft Edge Charka Wrong Scopes In Deferred Parsing	laginimaineb	24.09.2017

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
7.6/10	10/10	4.9/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	High	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Complete	Complete	Complete

Affected software
Microsoft -> EDGE

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100763

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039342

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8740

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42764/

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