CVE-2017-8817
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 11.2% (pctl 96)
Patch early
EPSS 11.2% — above the 10% action threshold.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 11.18% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-125 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2017-11-29 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| debian | debian linux |
| haxx | curl |
| haxx | libcurl |
References
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html
- 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-4051
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html
- 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-4051
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