CVE-2023-38173: Microsoft Edge for Android Spoofing Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
Medium (CVSS 4.3)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Spoofing
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2023-Jul
Released
2023-07-21
EPSS Score
0.25% (percentile: 48.2%)

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to no loss of availability (A:N)? What does that mean for this vulnerability? An attacker cannot impact the availability of the browser. According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of integrity (I:L)? What does that mean for this vulnerability? The attacker is only able to modify the content of the vulnerable link to redirect the victim to a malicious site. According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to no loss of Confientiality (C:N)? What does that mean for this vulnerability? An attacker cannot obtain information from the vicitm. What is the version information for this release? Microsoft Edge Channel Microsoft Edge Version Based on Chromium Version Date Released Stable 115.0.1901.183 115.0.5790.98/99 7/21/2023 Extended Stable 114.0.1901.183 114.0.5735.243 7/21/2023 According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? The user would have to click on a specially crafted URL to be compromised by the attacker.

Affected Products (1)

Browser

  • Microsoft Edge for Android

Acknowledgments

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Revision History

  • 2023-07-21: Information published.