7.5

CVE-2017-10986: freeradius Infinite Loop

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2017-10986
Published 17-07-2017Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-10986 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Infinite Loop vulnerability in freeradius. EPSS estimates a 2.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.99%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2

Timeline

  1. 17-07-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An FR-GV-303 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "DHCP - Infinite read in dhcp_attr2vp()" and a denial of service.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.99%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

87%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.99% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.99%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • freeradius< 3.0.15+dfsg-1
Freeradius1 product
  • freeradius3.0.0 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.6 | 3.0.7 | 3.0.8 | 3.0.9 | 3.0.10 | 3.0.11 | 3.0.12 | 3.0.13 | 3.0.14

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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