CVE-2017-8817
curl - security update
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.73%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-8817
To remediate CVE-2017-8817, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/curl—upgrade to 7.57.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 7.57.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 7.26.0-1+wheezy23 or later
Is CVE-2017-8817 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 7.57.0-r0
- from 0, < 7.57.0-1
- from 0, < 7.26.0-1+wheezy23
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |