Microsoft Edge Scripting Engine memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Edge. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Scripting Engine. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2017-0152. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Edge (Web Browser) (version unknown). This issue affects an unknown function of the component Scripting Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way affected Microsoft scripting engine render when handling objects in memory in Microsoft browsers. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

The weakness was published 07/17/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-0152 since 09/09/2016. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $25k-$100k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/12/2022).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Web Browser

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• Microsoft

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• Edge

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

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