VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-8523

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Published 2017-06-15 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an attacker to trick a user into loading a page with malicious content when Microsoft Edge fails to correctly apply Same Origin Policy for HTML elements present in other browser windows, aka "Microsoft Edge Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8530 and CVE-2017-8555.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windows-not-affected
windows windows1511not-affected
windows windows1607not-affected
windows windows1703not-affected
windows windowsnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftedge

References

CWEs

CWE-346

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

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