CVE-2015-6047: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 13.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The broker EditWith feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 through 11 allows remote attackers to bypass the AppContainer protection mechanism and gain privileges via a DelegateExecute launch of an arbitrary application, as demonstrated by a transition from Low Integrity to Medium Integrity, aka "Internet Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Affected products

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

Published 2015-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.