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CVE-2017-10906

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-10906 describes an escape sequence injection vulnerability affecting Fluentd versions 0.12.29 through 0.12.40, including its integration with Red Hat OpenStack. This critical vulnerability, rated 9.8 CVSS, allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely change the terminal UI or execute arbitrary commands with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.12.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fluentd:fluentd:0.12.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fluentd:fluentd:0.12.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fluentd:fluentd:0.12.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fluentd:fluentd:0.12.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12.33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fluentd:fluentd:0.12.33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0458 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 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 (8)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7Fixed in: fluentd-0:0.12.41-1.el7
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: fluentdFixed in: 0.12.41
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3Fixed in: fluentd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4Fixed in: fluentd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) Operational ToolsFixed in: fluentd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) Operational ToolsFixed in: fluentd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) Operational ToolsFixed in: fluentd

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-5jrp-w8fr-mrwwcritical

Fluentd Escape Sequence Injection Vulnerability

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-10906Moderate

fluentd: Escape sequence injection in filter_parser.rb:filter_stream can lead to arbitrary command execution when processing logs

Nov 7, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2225
Third Party Advisory
github.com / fluent/fluentd/blob/v0.12/CHANGELOG.md
Issue TrackingRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / fluent/fluentd/pull/1733
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
jvn.jp / en/vu/JVNVU95124098/index.html
Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry