CVE-2017-8817
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 11%
SSVC
No known exploit
Description
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.
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=162VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897Vendor 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-ae72.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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-125
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