PT-2018-18524 · Microsoft · Edge

Published 2018-07-10 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-8278

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description A spoofing issue exists due to improper handling of specific HTML content by Microsoft Edge. This could allow an attacker to trick a user into believing they are on a legitimate website. The attacker's website could either spoof content or be used to chain an attack with other vulnerabilities in web services. To exploit this, a user must browse to a malicious website or be redirected to it.

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

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-290

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-8278

Affected Products

Edge

References · 5

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8278 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8278 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8278 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041255 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104627 · Note