Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Windows

CVE-2017-8493
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.46 % · percentile 74 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified

Description

Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to set variables that are either read-only or require authentication when Windows fails to enforce case sensitivity for certain variable checks, aka "Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability".

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-178 — Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft Windowsaffected Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016.

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD