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CVE-2017-8673
The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation in Microsoft Windows 10 1703 allows an attacker to connect to a target system using RDP…
Medium5.9EPSS 5.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation in Microsoft Windows 10 1703 allows an attacker to connect to a target system using RDP and send specially crafted requests, aka "Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Denial of Service Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.7% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
Affected products
Microsoft Corporation · Windows RDP
- affected Microsoft Windows 10 1703
References (3)
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8673 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1039107 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 100079 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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