CVE-2017-11861
HIGHMicrosoft Edge - Memory Corruption in Scripting Engine
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2017-11861. PoCs published by Google Security Research.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC exploits an integer overflow vulnerability in the Microsoft Office Equation Editor (EQNEDT32.EXE) by triggering a bounds check failure in a 64-bit system, leading to memory corruption. The code demonstrates the issue by attempting to write to a large Uint32Array, which can cause a crash or arbitrary code execution.
Description
Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 1607, 1703, 1709, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server, version 1709 allows an attacker to gain the same user rights as the current user, due to how the scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11836, CVE-2017-11837, CVE-2017-11838, CVE-2017-11839, CVE-2017-11840, CVE-2017-11841, CVE-2017-11843, CVE-2017-11846, CVE-2017-11858, CVE-2017-11859, CVE-2017-11862, CVE-2017-11866, CVE-2017-11869, CVE-2017-11870, CVE-2017-11871, and CVE-2017-11873.
Exploits (1)
This PoC exploits an integer overflow vulnerability in the Microsoft Office Equation Editor (EQNEDT32.EXE) by triggering a bounds check failure in a 64-bit system, leading to memory corruption. The code demonstrates the issue by attempting to write to a large Uint32Array, which can cause a crash or arbitrary code execution.
References (4)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H