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Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to to gain privileges, execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions and obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

An improper handling of objects in memory in Microsoft browsers can be exploited remotely via a specially designed website to execute arbitrary code;
An incorrect access to objects in memory in Microsoft Edge can be exploited remotely via a specially designed website to execute arbitrary code;
An improper handling of objects in memory in the JScript and VBScript engines in Internet Explorer can be exploited remotely via a specially crafted website to execute arbitrary code;
An incorrect access to objects in memory in Internet Explorer can be exploited remotely via a specially designed website to execute arbitrary code;
An improper validation of documents in Microsoft Edge Content Security Policy can be exploited remotely via certain specially designed documents to trick a user into loading a web page with malicious content;
An incorrect handling of objects in memory in the Chakra scripting engine can be exploited remotely via a specially designed website to obtain sensitive information;
An improper enforcing of cross-domain policies in Internet Explorer can be exploited remotely via a specially designed website to gain privileges.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

CVE list

CVE-2017-0093
critical
CVE-2017-0200
critical
CVE-2017-0201
critical
CVE-2017-0202
critical
CVE-2017-0203
warning
CVE-2017-0205
critical
CVE-2017-0208
warning
CVE-2017-0210
warning

KB list

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Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer