VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-0037

unknown KEV
Published 2022-03-28 · Modified 2022-03-28
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer have a type confusion vulnerability in mshtml.dll, which allows remote code execution.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Edge and Internet Explorer
Due date
2022-04-18

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-41454 dos windows verified
Google Security Research · 2017-02-24

Microsoft Edge / Internet Explorer - 'HandleColumnBreakOnColumnSpanningElement' Type Confusion

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-43125 remote windows_x86 verified
mschenk · 2017-10-17

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 7 x86) - 'mshtml.dll' Remote Code Execution (MS17-007)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-42354 remote windows_x86-64
redr2e · 2017-07-24

Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'mshtml.dll' Remote Code Execution (MS17-007)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

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

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