CVE-2017-0158: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows running on Windows 10, Windows 10 1511, Windows 8.1 Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 fails to properly sanitize handles in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: any version; version 1511 only; version 1607 only; version 1703 only
• Microsoft Windows 7: any version
• Microsoft Windows 8.1: any version
• Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: any version; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: any version; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: any version
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version

Published 2017-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.