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Medium MSRC-CVE-2023-36026 1 CVE

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Spoofing Vulnerability

Published Nov 14, 2023 · Updated Oct 10, 2024 · Revision 2

Summary

Impact: Spoofing. Microsoft rating: Moderate. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

Why is the severity for this CVE rated as Moderate, but the CVSS score is higher than normal?
Per our severity guidelines, the amount of user interaction or preconditions required to allow this sort of exploitation downgraded the severity, specifically it says, "If a bug requires more than a click, a key press, or several preconditions, the severity will be downgraded". The CVSS scoring system doesn't allow for this type of nuance.

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 is able to bypass the warning on the permissions message when visiting a potentially malicious website.

What is the version information for this release?
Stable: Stable, 119.0.2151.72: 119.0.2151.72, 11/16/2023: 11/16/2023, 119.0.6045.159/.160: 119.0.6045.159/.160, Extended Stable: Extended Stable, 118.0.2088.109: 118.0.2088.109, 11/16/2023: 11/16/2023, 118.0.5993.144: 118.0.5993.144

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user would have to click on a specially crafted URL to be compromised by the attacker.

Security updates
119.0.2151.72 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Corrected Build Numbers in the Security Updates table. This is an informational change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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