CVE-2018-8174

unknown KEV

Published 2022-02-15 · Modified 2022-02-15

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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

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the VBScript engine handles objects in memory, aka "Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution"

CISA KEV

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Windows
Due date: 2022-08-15

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

99%

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-44741 local windows

smgorelik · 2018-05-21

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 7 x86/x64) - vbscript Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8174

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

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