Microsoft Internet Explorer 7/8/9/10/11 cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7/8/9/10/11. It has been declared as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2014-4123. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7/8/9/10/11 (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity.

The issue has been introduced in 07/27/2005. The weakness was presented 10/14/2014 by James Forshaw with Google Project Zero as MS14-056 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at technet.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-4123 since 06/12/2014. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but an exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

It is declared as attacked. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3366 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 78431 (MS14-056: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2987107)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 100212 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update (MS14-056)). This issue was added on 05/25/2022 to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a due date of 06/15/2022:

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Applying the patch MS14-056 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at technet.microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 16904.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (96738), Zero-Day.cz (340), Tenable (78431), SecurityFocus (BID 70326†) and Secunia (SA60968†). krebsonsecurity.com is providing further details. See VDB-67832, VDB-67831, VDB-67806 and VDB-67811 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Nessus ID: 78431
Nessus Name: MS14-056: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2987107)
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS14-056
Researcher: James Forshaw
Organization: Google Project Zero
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CVE: CVE-2014-4123 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-4123
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-67808

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X-Force: 96738
SecurityFocus: 70326 - Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2014-4123 Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 60968
SecurityTracker: 1031018 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Mulitple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Bypass the ASLR Security Feature
Vulnerability Center: 46431 - [MS14-056] Internet Explorer 7 Through 11 Remote Host Privilege due to Flawed Checks - CVE-2014-4123, Critical

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/15/2014 11:22
Updated: 09/09/2024 22:30
Changes: 10/15/2014 11:22 (76), 04/07/2017 12:11 (11), 02/22/2022 00:17 (3), 02/22/2022 00:30 (1), 04/26/2024 15:39 (26), 06/28/2024 21:59 (12), 07/10/2024 20:19 (2), 09/09/2024 22:30 (1)
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