CVE-2013-4015: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows local users to bypass the elevation policy check in the (1) Protected Mode or (2) Enhanced Protected Mode protection mechanism, and consequently gain privileges, by leveraging the ability to execute sandboxed code.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only; version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only

Published 2013-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.