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CVE-2017-1000430

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-1000430 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in rust-base64 versions <= 0.5.1, specifically impacting the 'encode_config_buf' and 'encode_config' functions during base64 encoding. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, allowing for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit intelligence (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or active exploitation (KEV) has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the high FAUCET Risk Score of 79/100 indicates significant potential danger.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rust-base64_project:rust-base64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: base64Fixed in: 0.5.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-x67x-vg9m-65c3critical

Integer overflow in base64

Aug 25, 2021

References

github.com / RustSec/advisory-db/blob/master/crates/base64/RUSTSEC-2017-0004.toml
Third Party Advisory