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Internet Explorer 11 VBScript Engine Memory Corruption

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Internet Explorer 11 VBScript Engine Memory Corruption

Disclosed
05/10/2016
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits the memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2016-0189) present in the VBScript engine of Internet Explorer 11.

Author(s)

  • Theori
  • William Webb <william_webb@rapid7.com>

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x64

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/windows/browser/ms16_051_vbscript
msf exploit(ms16_051_vbscript) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(ms16_051_vbscript) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(ms16_051_vbscript) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(ms16_051_vbscript) > exploit

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