Microsoft Internet Explorer 10/11 Scripting Engine memory corruption

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10/11 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component Scripting Engine. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2019-0988. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10/11 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part 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 weakness was published 06/11/2019 as confirmed security update guide (Website). The advisory is shared at portal.msrc.microsoft.com. The public release has been coordinated with Microsoft. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-0988 since 11/26/2018. 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 $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/20/2025). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product decreasing in the near future. The advisory points out:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. 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. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 100373 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Update for June 2019).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at VDB-136283, VDB-136307, VDB-136413 and VDB-136418. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

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• Microsoft

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• Internet Explorer

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• 10
• 11

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• commercial

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• end of life

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• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

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