CVE detail

CVE-2017-8540 — Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Improper Restriction of Operations Vulnerability

Published 2022-03-03 · Modified 2022-03-03 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.7196

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

99.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2022-03-24

Description

The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender 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, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016, does not properly scan a specially crafted file leading to memory corruption. aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability".

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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