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Tracker / CVE-2017-8493

CVE-2017-8493

Medium 5.5

Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to set variables that are either read-only or require authentication when Windows fails to enforce case sensitivity for certain variable checks, aka "Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability".

Affected products and versions

microsoft windows_10
microsoft windows_8.1
microsoft windows_rt_8.1
microsoft windows_server_2012
microsoft windows_server_2016

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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