CVE-2017-11823

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Published 2017-10-13 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.7

Description

The Microsoft Device Guard on Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows a security feature bypass by the way it handles Windows PowerShell sessions, aka "Microsoft Windows Security Feature Bypass".

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
66%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42997 dos windows verified
Google Security Research ยท 2017-10-17

Microsoft Windows 10 - WLDP/MSHTML CLSID UMCI Bypass

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

windows Windows Affected 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
1703 Affected โ€”
1607 Affected โ€”
1511 Affected โ€”
- Affected โ€”
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References

CWEs

CWE-362

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.