March 25, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2018-8373 — Microsoft Internet Explorer Scripting Engine
Microsoft Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2022-03-25- Federal due date
2022-04-15- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Internet Explorer Scripting Engine
- EPSS
- 99.3th percentile (score 0.825, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8373
CISA short description
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.