Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2017-8750

Microsoft Internet Explorer Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Published Mar 19, 2019 · catalog updated Mar 19, 2019 · Microsoft Internet Explorer

Patch now

CVE-2017-8750 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Microsoft Internet Explorer against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
8.96%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor Microsoft Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer in Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user due to the way that Microsoft browsers access objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Browser Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

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  • vendor Microsoft Internet Explorerversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2017-8750

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2017-8750 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Microsoft Internet Explorer against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 8.96%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Mar 19, 2019 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer in Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user due to the way that Microsoft browsers access objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Browser

  2. Mar 19, 2019 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2017-8750

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2017-8750

    30-day exploitation probability 9.0%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2017-8750

    Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer in Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.