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CVE-2017-8682 in the critical feed json

Windows graphics on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8…

published 2017-09-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-17629

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
49.8%
EPSS 49.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Windows graphics on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Office Word Viewer, Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 , and Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 allows an attacker to execute remote code by the way it handles embedded fonts, aka "Win32k Graphics Remote Code Execution Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8683.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-42744)

Exploit prediction

49.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42744 Microsoft Windows Kernel - 'win32k.sys' '.TTF' Font Processing Out-of-Bounds Reads/Writes with Malformed 'fpgm' table 'win32k!bGeneratePath' (Denial of Service) dos, 2017-09-18

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Microsoft Corporation Windows graphics

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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