CVE-2014-1764: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging "object confusion" in a broker process, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2014.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7 only; version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only

Published 2014-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.