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HistoryAug 11, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Internet Explorer Registry Link Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

2015-08-1100:00:00
Ashutosh Mehra (https://twitter.com/ashutoshmehra)
www.zerodayinitiative.com
31

0.006 Low

EPSS

Percentile

78.1%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of registry links. An attacker running code in a low-integrity Internet Explorer process can set a registry link that will be followed by the medium-integrity broker process, which will then reduce the security of the target registry key in such a way that it can be modified by low-integrity Internet Explorer processes. These registry keys can be used to execute medium-integrity processes from low-integrity Internet Explorer processes.