CVE-2017-8518: microsoft corporation microsoft edge

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8518 is a high (CVSS 7.6) vulnerability in microsoft corporation microsoft edge. EPSS estimates a 10.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 10-08-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Microsoft Edge allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way it accesses objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.