CVE-2014-4077
HIGH KEVMicrosoft Office 2007 IME - Elevation of Privilege via Crafted PDF Document
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
CVE-2014-4077 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added May 25, 2022.
Description
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, and Office 2007 SP3, when IMJPDCT.EXE (aka IME for Japanese) is installed, allow remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via a crafted PDF document, aka "Microsoft IME (Japanese) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability," as exploited in the wild in 2014.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031197
Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/11/11/assessing-risk-for-the-november-2014-security-updates.aspx
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-078
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031196
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-4077
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.5129
EPSS Percentile
98.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
active
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CISA KEV
2022-05-25
VulnCheck KEV
2014-11-11
InTheWild.io
2014-11-11
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2014-4008
Status
published
Products (7)
microsoft/office_2007_ime
microsoft/office_2007_ime
sp3
microsoft/windows_7
microsoft/windows_server_2003
microsoft/windows_server_2008
microsoft/windows_server_2008
r2 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_vista
Published
Nov 11, 2014
KEV Added
May 25, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026