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CVE-2020-17052

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-17052 is a critical Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability affecting multiple Microsoft products, including various versions of Windows, Internet Explorer, and Edge. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows for remote code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction but high attack complexity. While it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 73/100 and notable community discussion and media coverage, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit modules like Metasploit or ExploitDB available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:11:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:edge:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0245 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (67)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11497
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11498
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11563
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11568
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11569
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11570
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11571
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11712
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11713
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11714
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11644
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11645
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11646
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11766
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11767
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11768
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11801
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-11802
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10729
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10735
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10724-10729
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10724-10735
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10852
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10853
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10816
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10047
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10048
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10051
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10481
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10482
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10378
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10483
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10486-10484
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1803 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows Server 2019
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1909 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1909 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 2004 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 2004 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 2004 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 20H2 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 20H2 for ARM64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows Server 2016
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 for 32-bit systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows Server 2012 R2
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows RT 8.1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows Server 2012
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Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2020-Nov/CVE-2020-17052Critical

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Nov 10, 2020

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-17052
PatchVendor Advisory