New 0-Day Attack Targeting Windows Users With Microsoft Office Documents

Discussion in 'News Aggregator' started by Ravie Lakshmanan, 8 Sep 2021.

  1. Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an actively exploited zero-day flaw impacting Internet Explorer that's being used to hijack vulnerable Windows systems by leveraging weaponized Office documents. Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), the remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is used in[​IMG]

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