Privilege escalation requiring user interaction
Published Jun 28, 2023 · Updated Feb 28, 2025
Elevation of privilege in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) before 91.0.864.37 allows remote attackers to gain elevated privileges. Microsoft has not published the affected component or the incorrect operation responsible for the privilege boundary failure. Exploitation requires user interaction; the public record does not identify the resulting security context or specific accessible data.
Summary
What happened
Elevation of privilege in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) before 91.0.864.37 allows remote attackers to gain elevated privileges. Microsoft has not published the affected component or the incorrect operation responsible for the privilege boundary failure. Exploitation requires user interaction; the public record does not identify the resulting security context or specific accessible data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-31937
- Published
- Jun 28, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
- Classifications
- CWE-269
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 28, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.0.0 <91.0.864.37
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