{"uuid": "9da272b4-3311-4209-8835-52188335e387", "vulnerability_lookup_origin": "1a89b78e-f703-45f3-bb86-59eb712668bd", "author": "2a075640-a300-48a4-bb44-bc6130783b9b", "vulnerability": "CVE-2021-40444", "type": "exploited", "source": "https://t.me/cKure/6992", "content": "\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a1\u25a1 Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an actively exploited zero-day flaw impacting Internet Explorer that's being used to hijack vulnerable Windows systems by leveraging weaponized Office documents.\nTracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), the remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is used in Office to render web content inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.\n\nhttps://thehackernews.com/2021/09/new-0-day-attack-targeting-windows.html", "creation_timestamp": "2021-09-08T06:14:03.000000Z"}