CVE-2017-0189: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows 10 when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-0188.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: any version; version 1511 only; version 1607 only; version 1703 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: any version

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