CVE-2017-8816
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: November 29, 2017 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:27 AM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxCurlLibcurl
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 9%
SSVC
No known exploit
Description
The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=161VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101998VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039896Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-12e7.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051SSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCNo known exploitAutomatableTotal impact
SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.
CVSS
9.8CRITICALCISA-ADP
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190
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