BROWSER-IE -- Snort has detected traffic known to exploit vulnerabilities present in the Internet Explorer browser, or products that have the Trident or Tasman engines.
BROWSER-IE Microsoft Edge HandleColumnBreakOnColumnSpanningElement type confusion attempt
This event is generated when a type confusion attack is detected in Microsoft Edge. Impact: Attempted Administrator Privilege Gain Details: Ease of Attack:
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No known false positives
Cisco Talos Intelligence Group
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CVE-2017-0037Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 and Microsoft Edge have a type confusion issue in the Layout::MultiColumnBoxBuilder::HandleColumnBreakOnColumnSpanningElement function in mshtml.dll, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence and crafted JavaScript code that operates on a TH element. |
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