CVE-2015-0040

critical
Published 2015-02-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0018, CVE-2015-0037, and CVE-2015-0066.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40757 dos windows verified
Skylined · 2016-11-14

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 - MSHTML CMap­Element::Notify Use-After-Free (MS15-009)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer11

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.