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Go to dashboardMicrosoft Internet Explorer's scripting engine mishandles objects in memory, causing memory corruption. An attacker who gets a user to load a crafted web page can run code on that user's machine.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 19:11 UTC, 3h before NVD. All times on this page are UTC.
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
| Product | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | vendor | – | – |
Check whether Internet Explorer is installed and enabled on Windows endpoints, for example with the Windows optional features list or by looking for iexplore.exe.
Apply the Microsoft security update for the Internet Explorer scripting engine per vendor instructions, as CISA requires.
Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 11, Internet Explorer 10. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8643.
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