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Case File

CVE-2017-8420

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 0.88% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-07-05 · Last synced 2026-08-04

Field Assessment

AI analysis pending.

Exhibit — Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
exploit
GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗

Note: these links are listed for security research and verification purposes only.

CVE
CVE-2017-8420
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
0.88%
Windows

Original Filing — NVD Description

SWFTools 2013-04-09-1007 on Windows has a "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at image00000000_00400000+0x0000000000003e71" issue. This issue can be triggered by a malformed TTF file that is mishandled by font2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS (Access Violation).