CVE-2017-8556 — Improper Preservation of Permissions in Microsoft Windows 10

CWE-281 — Improper Preservation of Permissions8 documents4 sources
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.32%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
15
Microsoft Windows 10Microsoft Windows Server 2008Microsoft Windows Server 2012+12 more
Timeline
PublishedJul 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Graphics in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability when it fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8573 and CVE-2017-8574.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages14 packages

Patches

Patch: portal.msrc.microsoft.com ↗Patch: portal.msrc.microsoft.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-h74v-56jh-p3h3: Graphics in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8↗2022-05-13
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GHSA
GHSA-v6cw-cwp6-x9pw: Graphics in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8↗2022-05-13
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GHSA
GHSA-xf39-xcgh-x46j: Graphics in Microsoft Windows 10 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability when it fails to properly handle o↗2022-05-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Microsoft
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability↗2017-07-11
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Talos
Microsoft Patch Tuesday - July 2017↗2017-07-11
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