CVE-2017-6517

15Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 46%

exploitation probability

46%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

Microsoft Skype 7.16.0.102 contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted system. This vulnerability exists due to the way .dll files are loaded by Skype. It allows an attacker to load a .dll of the attacker's choosing that could execute arbitrary code without the user's knowledge.The specific flaw exists within the handling of DLL (api-ms-win-core-winrt-string-l1-1-0.dll) loading by the Skype.exe process.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141650/Skype-7.16.0.102-DLL-Hijacking.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Mar/44 https://technet.microsoft.com/security/cc308575.aspx https://twitter.com/tiger_tigerboy/status/755332687141883904 https://twitter.com/vysecurity/status/845013670103003138 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96969 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038209