HTTP: Microsoft Edge Scripting Engine CVE-2017-8755 Remote Memory Corruption
This signature detects an attempt to exploit a known vulnerability against Microsoft Edge. Successful exploitation of this issue may grant an attacker remote code execution.
Extended Description
Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, due to the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8649, CVE-2017-8649, CVE-2017-8660, CVE-2017-8729, CVE-2017-8738, CVE-2017-8740, CVE-2017-8741, CVE-2017-8748, CVE-2017-8752, CVE-2017-8753, CVE-2017-8756, and CVE-2017-11764.
Short Name
HTTP:STC:IE:MS-CVE-2017-8755-MC
Severity
Major
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
HTTP
Keywords
CVE-2017-8755 Corruption Edge Engine Memory Microsoft Remote Scripting bid:100778
Release Date
10/12/2017
Supported Platforms
srx-branch-12.3
srx-19.3
srx-branch-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.2
srx-branch-19.4
vsrx-19.4
mx-12.3
mx-19.4
vmx-19.4
mx-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.4
srx-19.4
vsrx-12.3
vmx-19.3
vsrx-19.2
srx-12.3
Sigpack Version
3797
False Positive
Unknown
CVSS Score
7.6