CVE-2014-2783: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 does not prevent use of wildcard EV SSL certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof a trust level by leveraging improper issuance of a wildcard certificate by a recognized Certification Authority, aka "Extended Validation (EV) Certificate Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."

Affected products

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

Published 2014-07-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.