CVE-2017-8710: Microsoft Windows 7

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 10.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Microsoft Common Console Document (.msc) in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1 allows an attacker to read arbitrary files via an XML external entity (XXE) declaration, due to the way that the Microsoft Common Console Document (.msc) parses XML input containing a reference to an external entity, aka "Windows Information Disclosure Vulnerability".

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified; version r2 only

Published 2017-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.