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CVE-2017-8683 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-2017-17630

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.6%
EPSS 22.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
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, and Windows Server 2016, 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-2017-8682.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-42746)

Exploit prediction

22.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42746 Microsoft Windows Kernel - 'win32k.sys' '.TTF' Font Processing Out-of-Bounds Read with Malformed 'glyf' Table 'win32k!fsc_CalcGrayRow' (Denial of Service) dos, 2017-09-18

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Microsoft Corporation Windows graphics

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.