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CVE-2014-4077

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, and Office 2007 SP3, when IMJPDCT.E

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Listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Certain older Microsoft Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office, when the Japanese Input Method Editor (IME) is installed, are affected. A remote attacker who gets a user to open a specially crafted PDF can bypass sandbox protections and gain elevated privileges on the system.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, and Office 2007 SP3, when IMJPDCT.EXE (aka IME for Japanese) is installed, allow remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via a crafted PDF document, aka "Microsoft IME (Japanese) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability," as exploited in the wild in 2014.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 4

securitytracker.com

blogs.technet.com

docs.microsoft.com