CVE-2015-6184

high
Published 2016-03-09 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.1

Description

The CAttrArray object implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (type confusion and memory corruption) via a malformed Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence in conjunction with modifications to HTML elements, aka "Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-6048 and CVE-2015-6049.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
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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OS impact

windows Windows Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8
windows microsoftinternet_explorer9
windows microsoftinternet_explorer10
windows microsoftinternet_explorer11

References

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

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