CVE-2018-0840

EPSS 53.7%

Vexday Risk Score

35Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

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PoC available → attend closely

CVSS —EPSS 53.7%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

15 Feb 2018Public PoC

15 Feb 2018Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, and Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and Windows Server 2016 allows remote code execution, due to how the scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-0834, CVE-2018-0835, CVE-2018-0836, CVE-2018-0837, CVE-2018-0838, CVE-2018-0856, CVE-2018-0857, CVE-2018-0858, CVE-2018-0859, CVE-2018-0860, CVE-2018-0861, and CVE-2018-0866.

Affected products

Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Internet Explorer

public PoCs found — 2

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44077/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44077unverified

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References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0840 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44077/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102886 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040369 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040372