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CVE-2017-8759 Unmapped

Microsoft .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vendor / product
Microsoft — .NET Framework
Description (CISA)
Microsoft .NET Framework contains a remote code execution vulnerability when processing untrusted input that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system.
Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Due date
2022-05-03
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Known ransomware use
Unknown
CWE
CWE-20
CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8759
Elsewhere
cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON

ATT&CK techniques

No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.

The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2017-8759. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-20) — here is why — and does not guess.

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Sigma rules tagged with this CVE

1 rule in SigmaHQ carries the tag cve.2017-8759. These are shown as detection content for the CVE itself. Their ATT&CK tags are deliberately not rendered here: a rule author's tag is not an authoritative statement of how the vulnerability is exploited, and this page does not show techniques for unmapped entries.

Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) · 2017-09-15 (modified 2021-11-27) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · fdd84c68-a1f6-47c9-9477-920584f94905
Detects Winword starting uncommon sub process csc.exe as used in exploits for CVE-2017-8759
CVE tags: CVE-2017-8759