Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Windows

CVE-2017-8494
HIGH 7.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.95 % · percentile 80 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified

Description

Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow a locally-authenticated attacker to run a specially crafted application on a targeted system when Windows Secure Kernel Mode fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability".

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-281 — Improper Preservation of Permissions

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft Windowsaffected Microsoft 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