Zero Day Initiative Advisory 11-249 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to escape Protected Mode on vulnerable installations of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer Protected Mode consists of a Medium Integrity and a Low Integrity process. The Low Integrity process is only allowed to write to special Low Integrity locations. File written there are marked as Low Integrity files. When a new Internet Explorer process is launched it checks the Integrity of the file it is launched against. If the file is a Low Integrity file it will run the process in Low Integrity Mode. It is however possible to give the file an even lower permission: Untrusted, since this does not match the check for 'Low Integrity' the Internet Explorer will run in Medium Integrity instead of Low Integrity. This can be abused in an exploit to bypass the Protected Mode design and thus allow an attacker to escalate their privileges.
51bd7c3412e7fb4f8056be72e056ff829c573cc8f00f72534f63acc07cd0d6d2
© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.
%7Cutmcsr%3D(direct)%7Cutmcmd%3D(none)){kind=small}
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Facebook
Subscribe to an RSS Feed