CVE-2017-8563
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.1 · CWE-281
8.1CVSS HIGH
Summary
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to Kerberos falling back to NT LAN Manager (NTLM) Authentication Protocol as the default authentication protocol, aka "Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability".
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)7%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8563 ↗