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Low MSRC-CVE-2023-28261 1 CVE

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Mar 14, 2023 · Updated Aug 1, 2023 · Revision 3

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Low. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition and also to take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
A domain user could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges to SYSTEM assigned integrity level.

According to the CVSS metrics, the attack vector is local (AV:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker must have loaded the malicious executable onto the victim's machine through social engineering first. The execution of the attack itself only occurs on the victim's local machine with no network access required.

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to no loss of availability (A:N)? What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker cannot impact the availability of the browser.

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of integrity (I:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could have limited ability to perform code execution.

What is the version information for this release?
Stable: Stable, 111.0.1661.54: 111.0.1661.54, 111.0.5563.110/.111: 111.0.5563.110/.111, 3/23/2023: 3/23/2023, Extended Stable: Extended Stable, 110.0.1587.78: 110.0.1587.78, 110.0.5481.208: 110.0.5481.208, 3/23/2023: 3/23/2023

Security updates
110.0.1587.78 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #3

    Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products and added an FAQ explaining the vector string settings. This is an informational change only.

  2. #2

    Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products. This is an informational change only.

  3. #1

    Information published.

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