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HistoryFeb 13, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Internet Explorer CMarkup Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2014-02-1300:00:00
Simon Zuckerbraun
www.zerodayinitiative.com
10

0.842 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.5%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of CMarkup objects. By manipulating a document’s elements an attacker can force a dangling pointer to be reused after it has been freed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.