Microsoft Corporation Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers

CVE-2017-8691
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 19.77 % · percentile 97 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified

Description

Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 allow an attacker to execute code remotely on a target system when the Windows font library fails to properly handle specially crafted embedded fonts, aka "Express Compressed Fonts Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft Corporation · Windows Kernel-Mode Driversaffected Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD