CVE-2018-0817: Microsoft Windows 10

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and 1709, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server, version 1709 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Windows GDI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0815 and CVE-2018-0816.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10: affected versions not specified; version 1511 only; version 1607 only; version 1703 only; version 1709 only
• Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows 8.1: any version
• Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: affected versions not specified; version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: affected versions not specified; version 1709 only

Published 2018-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.