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The general method of browser render process exploit is: after exploiting the vulnerability to obtain user mode arbitrary memory read/write primitive, the vtable of DOM/js object is tampered to hijack the code execution flow. Then VirtualProtect is called by ROP chain to modify the shellcode memory to PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE, and the code execution flow is jumped to shellcode by ROP chain finally. After Windows 8.1, Microsoft introduced CFG (Control Flow Guard)[1] mitigation to verify the indirect function call, which mitigates the exploitation of tampering with vtable to get code execution. ...

In January of this year, Google and Microsoft respectively published blogs revealing attacks on security researchers by an APT group from NK[1][2]. A vulnerability in Internet Explorer used in this attack was fixed as CVE-2021-26411 in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this month[3]. The vulnerability is triggered when users of the affected version of Internet Explorer access a malicious link constructed by attackers, causing remote code execution. Root cause analysis The POC which can trigger the vulnerability is shown below: ...