Privacy News PoC Code Available for Microsoft Edge Remote Code Execution Bug

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The flurry of security bugs Microsoft addressed with this month's rollout of updates includes a remote code execution vulnerability in Edge web browser. The glitch relies on abusing URI schemes and scripts in Windows that can run with user-defined parameters.

Now tracked as CVE-2018-8495, the bug was discovered by security researcher Abdulrahman Al-Qabandi.

His investigation started from the simple response to the 'mailto' URI scheme in Microsoft Edge when he noticed that Outlook would launch with a parameter customized for the scenario at hand.
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