How severe is CVE-2014-4123?

CVE-2014-4123 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 47.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2014-4123: Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-05-25

Remediation due

2022-06-15

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4123

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted web site, aka "Internet Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability," as exploited in the wild in October 2014, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4124.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

5 Links

Vendor advisories

MS14-056

Third-party advisories

60968

Vulnerability databases

Other references

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/10/14/accessing-risk-for-the-october-2014-security-updates.aspx

Record Details

Published

2014-10-15

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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