CVE-2017-11937Critical

Microsoft advisory for CVE-2017-11937

Published
December 6, 2017
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2017-11937 →

📋 Microsoft's advisory

EchelonGraph does not copy Microsoft's advisory page: its FAQ and remediation text are not shown here. Read the advisory on https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11937. This page also shows what EchelonGraph holds for CVE-2017-11937, with the description from its CVE record, which the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned the CVE wrote: for a CVE Microsoft assigned, often in the words of Microsoft's own advisory.

🎯 Affected products24

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2016
  • Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
  • Microsoft Security Essentials
  • Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 Version 1703 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
  • Windows Defender on Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
  • Windows Defender on Windows 8.1 for 32-bit systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems
  • Windows Defender on Windows RT 8.1
  • Windows Defender on Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Defender on Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Defender on Windows Server, version 1709 (Server Core Installation)
  • Windows Intune Endpoint Protection

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2017-11937

EchelonGraph score
7.8 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, 1709 and Windows Server 2016, Windows Server, version 1709, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016, does not properly scan a specially crafted file leading to remote code execution. aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability".

Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2017-11937, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (1)