CVE-2020-0674highunder attackCWE-416

CVE-2020-0674: high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10

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98Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA, has a public proof of concept and 1 threat group(s) use it.

ssvc Actcvss 7.5epss 87%
from disclosure to weapon86 days
Published on NVDFeb 11
1st PoC+86d
CISA KEV+631d
Who exploits it — 1

Groups known to exploit this vulnerability (MITRE ATT&CK attribution).

Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2022-05-03

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In short

Internet Explorer has a memory handling flaw that allows attackers to run harmful code on your computer when you visit a malicious website. The vulnerability exists in how the browser processes scripts, and exploiting it can give attackers full control of your system.

Technical detail

A use-after-free vulnerability (CWE-416) in Internet Explorer's scripting engine allows remote code execution when a specially crafted web page is visited. The attack requires user interaction (visiting a malicious site) and can result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the logged-in user.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.

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A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer, aka 'Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0673, CVE-2020-0710, CVE-2020-0711, CVE-2020-0712, CVE-2020-0713, CVE-2020-0767.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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