CVE-2017-3158: apache software foundation apache guacamole Race Condition
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2017-3158 is a high (CVSS 8.1) Race Condition vulnerability in apache software foundation apache guacamole. EPSS estimates a 1.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 18-01-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 16-09-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A race condition in Guacamole's terminal emulator in versions 0.9.5 through 0.9.10-incubating could allow writes of blocks of printed data to overlap. Such overlapping writes could cause packet data to be misread as the packet length, resulting in the remaining data being written beyond the end of a statically-allocated buffer.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.22%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
68%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.22% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu2 products
- guacamole-clientAll versions (No fix recorded)
- guacamole-serverAll versions (No fix recorded)
Apache1 product
- guacamole≤ 0.9.9 | 0.9.10-incubating
Apache software foundation1 product
- apache guacamoleApache Guacamole 0.9.5 to 0.9.10-incubating
Org.apache.guacamole1 product
- guacamole-common≥ 0.9.5, < 0.9.11-incubating
4 vendors · 5 products
References
5 links- lists.apache.org/thread.html/…X Refsource MISC