CVE-2014-1764

critical

Published 2014-04-27 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging "object confusion" in a broker process, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2014.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34010 dos windows_x86

Drozdova Liudmila · 2014-07-08

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9/10 - CFormElement Use-After-Free / Memory Corruption (PoC) (MS14-035)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
microsoft	internet_explorer	`7`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`8`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`9`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`10`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`11`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.