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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2017-0295: Windows Default Folder Tampering Vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 13, 2017
Added
Jun 13, 2017
Modified
Sep 5, 2025

Description

Microsoft Windows 10 1607 and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an authenticated attacker to modify the C:\Users\DEFAULT folder structure, aka "Windows Default Folder Tampering Vulnerability".

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_10-1607-kb4022715microsoft-windows-windows_10-1703-kb4022725microsoft-windows-windows_server_2016-1607-kb4022715
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