PT-2018-18581 · Microsoft · Edge

Jun Kokatsu · Published 2018-11-13 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-8564

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description A spoofing issue arises when Microsoft Edge fails to properly handle specific HTML content. This could allow an attacker to deceive a user into thinking they are on a legitimate website. The attacker's specially crafted website could either spoof content or serve as a stepping stone to combine with other vulnerabilities in web services. To exploit this issue, a user must either visit 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.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-8564

Affected Products

Edge

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8564 · Security Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8564 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8564 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/105785 · Note