Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-3274 - Improper Access Control vulnerability in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11 and Microsoft Edge allow remote attackers to conduct content-spoofing attacks via a crafted URL, aka "Microsoft Browser Spoofing Vulnerability."
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 4 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Embedding Scripts within Scripts An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
- Signature Spoofing by Key Theft An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by theft and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.
Msbulletin
bulletin_id MS16-084 bulletin_url date 2016-07-12T00:00:00 impact Remote Code Execution knowledgebase_id 3169991 knowledgebase_url severity Critical title Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer bulletin_id MS16-085 bulletin_url date 2016-07-12T00:00:00 impact Remote Code Execution knowledgebase_id 3169999 knowledgebase_url severity Critical title Cumulative Security Update for Microsoft Edge
Nessus
NASL family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins NASL id SMB_NT_MS16-084.NASL description The version of Internet Explorer installed on the remote host is missing Cumulative Security Update 3169991. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, the majority of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these issues by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted website, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code in the context of the current user. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92015 published 2016-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92015 title MS16-084: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (3169991) NASL family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins NASL id SMB_NT_MS16-085.NASL description The version of Microsoft Edge installed on the remote Windows host is missing Cumulative Security Update 3169999. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A security feature bypass vulnerability exists due to a failure to properly implement Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to visit a website that hosts crafted content, to bypass the ASLR security feature, resulting in the ability to predict memory offsets in a call stack. (CVE-2016-3244) - Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities exist due to improper handling of objects in memory. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these, via a crafted website or email, to corrupt memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code within the context of the current user. (CVE-2016-3246, CVE-2016-3264) - Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities exist in the Chakra JavaScript engine due to improper handling of objects in memory. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these, by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted website or open a specially crafted Microsoft Office document that hosts the Edge rendering engine, to corrupt memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code within the context of the current user. (CVE-2016-3248, CVE-2016-3259, CVE-2016-3260, CVE-2016-3265, CVE-2016-3269) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in VBScript due to improper disclosure of the contents of its memory. An unauthenticated, remote attacker who has knowledge of the memory address where an object was created can exploit this issue to disclose potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2016-3271) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Browser XSS Filter due to improper validation of content. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a website that hosts content with specially crafted JavaScript, to disclose potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2016-3273) - Multiple spoofing vulnerabilities exist due to improper parsing of HTTP or HTML content. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these to redirect a user to a malicious website having spoofed contents. (CVE-2016-3274, CVE-2016-3276) - An unspecified information disclosure vulnerability exists due to improper handling of objects in memory that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to disclose potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2016-3277) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92016 published 2016-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92016 title MS16-085: Cumulative Security Update for Microsoft Edge (3169999)