CVE-2014-4077Microsoft IME Japanese Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BOD 26-04 remediation window

With CISA's SSVC answers for this CVE (automatable: no, technical impact: total), BOD 26-04 Table 1 gives 3 days and forensic triage on a publicly exposed asset (row 3) and 14 days on an asset that is not publicly exposed (row 11) ^S06. The catalogue due date, 21 days after the date added, was set before BOD 26-04 took effect on 10 June 2026 ^S06. The directive binds US federal civilian executive branch agencies only.

What CISA says

Short description

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.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4077

CWE in the catalogue

CWE-264

Official links

• CISA KEV catalogue entry cisa.gov
• NVD record nvd.nist.gov

Vendor advisory and patch links

References NVD tags Vendor Advisory or Patch, exactly as NVD lists them.

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/11/11/assessing-risk-for-the-november-2014-security-updates.aspx Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-078 Patch, Vendor Advisory

Links in CISA's notes

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4077

NVD details

CWE (NVD)

NVD-CWE-noinfo by nvd@nist.gov

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS versions in NVD

V2, V31

Last modified in NVD

2026-06-17T00:09:23.740

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