CVE-2017-0210 on CISA KEV

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer does not properly enforce cross-domain policies, which could allow an attacker to access information from one domain and inject it into another domain, aka "Internet Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnera

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer does not properly enforce cross-domain policies, which could allow an attacker to access information from one domain and inject it into another domain, aka "Internet Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97512
• www.securitytracker.com — http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038238
• portal.msrc.microsoft.com — https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-0210

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft Corporation	Internet Explorer	Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11

06Detection

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