Published: 11/07/2018 Updated: 24/08/2020

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 4.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.6

VMScore: 676

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 11, Internet Explorer 10. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8283, CVE-2018-8287, CVE-2018-8288, CVE-2018-8291, CVE-2018-8296, CVE-2018-8298.

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If at first you, er, make things worse, you're probably Microsoft: Bug patch needed patching

The Register • Shaun Nichols in San Francisco • 23 Jul 2018

VBScript hole 'fixed' in May actually left open for months

A remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows VBScript engine was left open for exploitation for two months after it was supposedly patched. In fact, the fix made things even worse by introducing another remotely exploitable bug in VBScript. This is all according to researchers at Qihoo 360, who today claimed a security hole in the scripting engine was only partially resolved in Redmond's May Patch Tuesday, and was only permanently patched in this month's batch of fixes. Designated CVE-20...

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