Description
Microsoft Edge allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-6153.
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.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Edge - CMarkup::EnsureDeleteCFState Use-After-Free (MS15-125) EDB-40878 · dos · Dec 6, 2016 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://blog.skylined.nl/20161201001.html
- 40878 exploit
- MS15-125 vendor-advisory
- 1034316 vdb-entry
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-583
- 20161201 CVE-2015-6168: MS Edge CMarkup::EnsureDeleteCFState use-after-free details mailing-list