CVE-2017-8652

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Published 2017-08-08 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an attacker to disclose information due to the way that Microsoft Edge handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Edge Information Disclosure Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8644 and CVE-2017-8662.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-42445 dos windows_x86-64 verified
Google Security Research ยท 2017-08-10

Microsoft Edge 38.14393.1066.0 - 'textarea.defaultValue' Memory Disclosure

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

OS impact

windows Windows Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
1703 Not affected โ€”
1607 Not affected โ€”
1511 Not affected โ€”
- Not affected โ€”
โ€” Not affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftedge

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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