CVE-2014-1770
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript code that interacts improperly with a CollectGarbage function call on a CMarkup object allocated by the…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 34.7%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript code that interacts improperly with a CollectGarbage function call on a CMarkup object allocated by the CMarkup::CreateInitialMarkup function.
- CVSS 2.0
- 9.3 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 34.66% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 8 July 2014
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- microsoft/internet explorer
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
EPSS 34.7% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/239151Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67544VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030266VDB Entry
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-140/Mitigation, VDB Entry
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-035
- https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2014/05/22/on-cve-2014-1770-zdi-14-140-internet-explorer-8-0day/Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/239151Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67544VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030266VDB Entry
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-140/Mitigation, VDB Entry
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-035
- https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2014/05/22/on-cve-2014-1770-zdi-14-140-internet-explorer-8-0day/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.