CVE-2017-8817

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 11
Modified
Published: 29 Nov 2017, 18:00
Last modified:15 Apr 2026, 20:59

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.73% LOW
1% probability +0.12%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

29 Nov 2017, 18:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
15 Apr 2026, 20:59
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v3.0•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.73%• Percentile: 73%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-125•Out-of-bounds Read

    The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0 | 9.0

  • haxx•curl

    ≥ 7.21.0, ≤ 7.56.1

  • haxx•libcurl

    > 7.21.0, ≤ 7.56.1

References (8)