Microsoft Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to execute…

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user when the JavaScript engine fails to render when handling objects in memory in Microsoft Internet Explorer, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8596, CVE-2017-8610, CVE-2017-8618, CVE-2017-8619, CVE-2017-8595, CVE-2017-8601, CVE-2017-8603, CVE-2017-8604, CVE-2017-8605, CVE-2017-8606, CVE-2017-8607, CVE-2017-8608, and CVE-2017-8609.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

8.9% · top 4.8% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

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)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Microsoft Corporation · Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016

  • affected Internet Explorer

References (3)

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8609 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1038849 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 99418 (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)

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Record last updated 17 Sept 2024, 01:56 UTC.