Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging "object confusion" in a broker process, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2014.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 9/10 - CFormElement Use-After-Free / Memory Corruption (PoC) (MS14-035) EDB-34010 · dos · Jul 8, 2014
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 1030370 vdb-entry
- http://www.pwn2own.com/2014/03/pwn2own-results-for-wednesday-day-one/
- 20140716 VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer "Request" Object Confusion Sandbox Bypass (Pwn2Own 2014) mailing-list
- MS14-035 vendor-advisory
- http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/443855973673754624
- 67295 vdb-entry