Netskope Threat Labs

BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer VBScript engine memory corruption attempt

IPS-SWG

1 SID: 47591

First seen
July 2022
Last seen
June 2025

Detects web content that exploits CVE-2018-8373, CVE-2020-1213, and CVE-2020-1403, memory corruption flaws in Internet Explorer's VBScript engine that can allow code execution. The rule matches the class initialization and array redimensioning that public exploits use to corrupt memory in the engine.