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CVE-2017-8673

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-8673 is a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation in Microsoft Windows 10 version 1703. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted RDP requests to a target system. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium), indicating a high availability impact with high attack complexity, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. While there is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and it's not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, community discussion and media coverage suggest some awareness of this issue.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1703CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1703:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0498 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1703 for 32-bit Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2017-Aug/CVE-2017-8673Important

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Denial of Service Vulnerability

Aug 8, 2017

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8673
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/100079
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039107
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry