CVE-2017-0211

medium
Published 2017-04-12 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016 versions of Microsoft Windows OLE when it fails an integrity-level check, aka "Windows OLE Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-41902 local windows verified
Google Security Research ยท 2017-04-20

Microsoft Windows 10 - Runtime Broker ClipboardBroker Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windowsaffected
windows windows1511affected
windows windows1607affected
windows windows1703affected
windows windowsr2affected

References

CWEs

CWE-610

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.