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CVE-2014-4077

Microsoft IME Japanese Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME) Japanese is a keyboard with Japanese characters that can be enabled on Windows systems as it is included by default (with the default set as disabled). IME Japanese contains an unspecified vulnerability when IMJPDCT.EXE (IME for Japanese) is installed which allows attackers to bypass a sandbox and perform privilege escalation.

CVE evidence

Known exploitation

Listed in CISA KEV

Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.

Severity

unknown

No parseable CVSS vector returned

Affected packages

0

Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Catalog record

Vendor / project
Microsoft
Product
Input Method Editor (IME) Japanese
Date added
May 25, 2022
CISA federal remediation due date
Jun 15, 2022
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Known ransomware campaign use
Unknown
CWE
CWE-264

OSV package mapping

Affected open-source packages

OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.