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Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Cat I impact)

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Microsoft has released a security bulletin addressing a vulnerability in their Input Method Editor (IME) (Japanese). Input Method Editors (IMEs) help solve an issue associated with entering information in certain languages via a keyboard. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would access a vulnerable sandboxed application using Microsoft IME (Japanese). If successfully exploited, the attacker would escape the sandbox of a vulnerable application and gain access to the affected system with logged-in user rights.

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Vulnerability ID: V-57395

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