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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-8739

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 1703 allows an attacker to obtain information to further compromise the user's system, due to the way that the Microsoft Edge scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Information Disclosure Vulnerability".

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published