Microsoft Internet Explorer 8/9 mshtml.dll Unclosed Tags Sequence denial of service
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8/9 (Web Browser). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part in the library mshtml.dll. The manipulation with the input value <table></for xmlns="1">…
leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability.
The issue has been introduced in 03/05/2008. The weakness was shared 12/20/2012 by Jean Pascal Pereira with 0xffe4 as Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.x <= Remote Stack Overflow Vulnerability as not defined mailinglist post (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at seclists.org. The vendor was not involved in the public release. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK. OSVDB critizises: "The original report appears to conclude that the described crash is 'exploitable' solely based on use of the !exploitable Crash Analyzer, part of the MSEC Debugger Extensions (http://msecdbg.codeplex.com/). Use of a crash analyzer without additional research in determining the existance of a vulnerability and ist exploitability is prone to false positives, sometimes flagging a crash as 'exploitable' that is not so."
A public exploit has been developed by Jean Pascal Pereira and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at seclists.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1751 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (80750). packetstormsecurity.org is providing further details.
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- end of life
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8
VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.8
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Exploiting
Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Jean Pascal Pereira
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
03/05/2008 🔍12/19/2012 🔍
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12/23/2012 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: microsoft.comAdvisory: Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.x <= Remote Stack Overflow Vulnerability
Researcher: Jean Pascal Pereira
Organization: 0xffe4
Status: Not defined
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X-Force: 80750 - Microsoft Internet Explorer denial of service, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 57002 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Crafted HTML Stack Overflow Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 88539
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 12/23/2012 09:14Updated: 04/07/2017 12:02
Changes: 12/23/2012 09:14 (60), 04/07/2017 12:02 (9)
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