Summary
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.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Input Method Editor (IME) Japanese
- Added to KEV
- May 25, 2022
- Remediation due
- Jun 15, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- EPSS
- 54.6% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References