VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-8561

high
Published 2017-07-11 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.0

Description

Windows kernel in Microsoft 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 due to the way it handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability".

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
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 windowsr2affected

References

CWEs

CWE-281

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

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