PT-2014-8766 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Arthur Gerkis · Published 2014-12-04 · Updated 2015-10-30 · CVE-2014-8967

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document in conjunction with a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence. This is due to improper object access in memory, which could corrupt memory and allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user has administrative user rights, an attacker could take complete control of the affected system, install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8967

ZDI-14-403

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 6

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-403 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8967 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8967 · Security Note
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-403 · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms15-009 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/71483 · Note