Microsoft browsers in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2,…

Description

Microsoft browsers in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user when the JavaScript engines fail to render when handling objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8517 and CVE-2017-8522.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

9.8% · top 4.5% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• Remote Code Execution
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-119

Affected products

• Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft browsers

  • affected Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016.

References (3)

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8524 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1038673 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 98930 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-8524](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-8524.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-8524)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 16:41 UTC.