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High MSRC-CVE-2023-36727 1 CVE

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Spoofing Vulnerability

Published Sep 12, 2023 · Updated Sep 15, 2023

Summary

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

Details

What is the version information for this release?
Stable: Stable, 117.0.2045.31: 117.0.2045.31, 117.0.5938.62/.63: 117.0.5938.62/.63, 9/15/2023: 9/15/2023

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.

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L)? What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Limited information from the victim's browser associated with the vulnerable URL can be sent to the attacker by the malicious code.

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 user would need to access the URL of the malicious website, which could spoof the content of a legitimate website, and then click a popup displayed on that site.

According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
The vulnerability is in the web server, but the malicious scripts execute in the victim’s browser on their machine.

Security updates
117.0.2045.31 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security

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