Microsoft has released a security advisory about the vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. The advisory says that the mentioned vulnerability exists due to the creation of uninitialized memory during a CSS function within Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n
If an attacker exploited this vulnerability, the attacker could gain the same user rights as of the logged-on user. If user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. For detailed information of this vulnerability, please visit Microsoft Security Advisory (2488013) page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Microsoft is investigating this vulnerability and has assured appropriate action to protect customers, which may include providing a solution through their monthly security update release process, or an out-of-cycle security update, depending on the needs of the customer.<\/p>\n I recommend users to be careful while browsing the Internet, do not open any suspicious mail from unknown sender or do not click suspicious URLs from emails. I also recommend users to set Windows Update <\/strong>in Install updates automatically mode<\/strong>, so that the patch for this vulnerability is applied automatically, when released by Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft has released a security advisory about the vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. The advisory says that the mentioned vulnerability exists due to the creation of uninitialized memory during a CSS function within Internet Explorer. If an attacker exploited this vulnerability, the attacker could gain the same user rights as of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}