CVE-2017-0109 Code injection in Hyper-V

What is CVE-2017-0109?

CVE-2017-0109 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10, published on 17 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via a crafted application, aka "Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This vulnerability is different from that described in CVE-2017-0075.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-0109?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2017-0109?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-0109 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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Is CVE-2017-0109 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-0109 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-1467 Windows Hard Link Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-26424 Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Critical 9.9
• CVE-2021-28476 Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Critical 9.9

All Microsoft Windows 10 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2cc5-887r-g8jc.