Related Weaknesses
CWE-ID |
Weakness Name |
Source |
CWE-119 |
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data. |
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Metrics
Metrics |
Score |
Severity |
CVSS Vector |
Source |
V2 |
9.3 |
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AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
[email protected] |
EPSS
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EPSS Score
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EPSS Percentile
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Exploit information
Exploit Database EDB-ID : 40878
Publication date : 2016-12-05 23h00 +00:00
Author : Skylined
EDB Verified : Yes
Source: http://blog.skylined.nl/20161201001.html
Synopsis
A specially crafted web-page can trigger a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Edge. I did not investigate this vulnerability thoroughly, so I cannot speculate on the potential impact or exploitability.
Known affected software and attack vectors
Microsoft Edge 11.0.10240.16384
An attacker would need to get a target user to open a specially crafted web-page. Disabling JavaScript does not prevent an attacker from triggering the vulnerable code path.
Repro:
/<style>:first-letter{word-spacing:9
Variation:
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Description
At the time this issue was first discovered, MemGC was just introduced, and I had not yet fully appreciated what an impact it would have on mitigating use-after-free bugs. Despite MemGC being enabled in Microsoft Edge by default, this issue appeared to me to have been a use-after-free vulnerability. However, both Microsoft and ZDI (whom I sold the vulnerability to) describes it as a memory corruption vulnerability, so it's probably more complex than I assumed.
At the time, I did not consider this vulnerability to be of great interest, as there was no immediately obvious way of controlling the vulnerability in order to exploit it. So, I did not do any further investigation into the root cause and, if this was indeed a use-after-free, how come MemGC did not mitigate it? In hindsight, it would have been a good idea to investigate the root cause, as any use-after-free that is not mitigated by MemGC might provide hints on how to find more vulnerabilities that bypass it.
Time-line
August 2015: This vulnerability was found through fuzzing.
August 2015: This vulnerability was submitted to ZDI.
December 2015: Microsoft addresses this vulnerability in MS15-125.
December 2016: Details of this vulnerability are released.
Products Mentioned
Configuraton 0
Microsoft>>Edge >> Version -
References