Microsoft Windows Error Reporting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (KB4035679)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4035679 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescriptio...

CVE-2017-8633

The CVE-2017-8633 vulnerability is an elevation of privilege in Windows Error Reporting (WER). The issue arises when WER handles and executes files, allowing an attacker to escalate privileges on affected Windows versions (Windows 7/8.1/10 and corresponding server SKUs). The linked OpenVAS/KB dat...

CVE-2017-8633

Windows Error Reporting WER in 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, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability, aka "Windows Error Reporting Elevation of...

Patch Tuesday - August 2017

It was a busy month this month with a total of 48 security issues fixed. All of these have a severity of Critical or Important with Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities again figuring highly, particularly for Microsoft Edge. There were also a few publicly disclosed vulnerabilities that were fixe...

Microsoft Windows Error Reporting CVE-2017-8633 Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote privilege-escalation vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems Microsoft Windows...