Coverage › CVE-2018-8174
CVE-2018-8174 Unmapped
Microsoft Windows VBScript Engine Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Windows
- Description (CISA)
- A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the VBScript engine handles objects in memory, aka "Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution"
- Added to KEV
- 2022-02-15
- Due date
- 2022-08-15
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-787
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8174
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2018-8174. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-787) — here is why — and does not guess.
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