Coverage › CVE-2014-4077
CVE-2014-4077 Unmapped
Microsoft IME Japanese Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Input Method Editor (IME) Japanese
- Description (CISA)
- 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.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-05-25
- Due date
- 2022-06-15
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-264
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4077
- 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-2014-4077. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-264) — here is why — and does not guess.
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