CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-0233

8.3 HIGH Published 2017-05-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2017-05-12
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected]): 8.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Edge that could allow an attacker to escape from the AppContainer sandbox in the browser, aka "Microsoft Edge Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-0241.

Affected configurations

• microsoft edge

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98179 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-0233 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98179 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-0233 Patch, Vendor Advisory