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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2017-0298: Windows COM Session Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Jun 13, 2017

Added

Jun 13, 2017

Modified

Sep 5, 2025

Description

A DCOM object in Helppane.exe in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016, when configured to run as the interactive user, allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code in another user's session, aka "Windows COM Session Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_10-1507-kb4022727microsoft-windows-windows_10-1511-kb4022714microsoft-windows-windows_10-1607-kb4022715microsoft-windows-windows_10-1703-kb4022725microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012-kb4022718microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012_r2-kb4022717microsoft-windows-windows_server_2016-1607-kb4022715msft-kb4022717-1d805e7c-215a-4c96-8b39-3829bd2e02d0msft-kb4022717-6abad12a-fc3f-4352-81f7-453e305f13edmsft-kb4022718-185fb91c-8006-4eeb-81f1-611113a80509msft-kb4022718-5cc34e54-998c-4120-ba8a-d528309738f8msft-kb4022722-0fff3ada-3205-441e-9f7f-f9e0198a32cemsft-kb4022722-4182f860-3205-4b8d-bf9d-4b0b93f34adcmsft-kb4022722-61851a6d-1717-4861-801a-461e772cb312msft-kb4022722-65224535-330e-42bd-8e35-824c878ec11amsft-kb4022722-657cd92e-a4a3-4319-a954-52bedeef4cfcmsft-kb4022722-e181eaef-054e-4b52-a00f-503b91461f68

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