CVE-2017-8817
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Out-of-bounds read
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)11%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.htmlAdvisory
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051Advisory