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CVE-2018-8567

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.4)—

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge does not properly enforce cross-domain policies, which could allow an attacker to access information from one domain and inject it into another domain, aka "Microsoft Edge Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Edge.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Microsoft — Edge

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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