{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secure@microsoft.com", "DATE_PUBLIC": "2017-07-11T00:00:00", "ID": "CVE-2017-8566", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "Microsoft Windows 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016.", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "Microsoft Windows" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "Microsoft Corporation" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Microsoft Windows 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to Windows Input Method Editor (IME) improperly handling parameters in a method of a DCOM class, aka \"Windows IME Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability\"." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Elevation of Privilege" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "99404", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99404" }, { "name": "1038853", "refsource": "SECTRACK", "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038853" }, { "name": "https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8566", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8566" } ] } }