VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-0298

high
Published 2017-06-15 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.3

Description

A DCOM object in Helppane.exe 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, 1703, and Windows Server 2016, when configured to run as the interactive user, allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code in another user's session, aka "Windows COM Session Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
72%
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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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windows-affected
windows windows1511affected
windows windows1607affected
windows windows1703affected
windows windowsaffected
windows windowsrtaffected
windows windowsr2affected

References

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

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