CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-0165

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-04-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows running on Windows 10, Windows 10 1511, Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 fails to properly sanitize handles in memory, aka "Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 10 • microsoft windows 10 1511 • microsoft windows 8.1 • microsoft windows rt 8.1 • microsoft windows server 2012 r2

References