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CVE-2017-11720

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-11720 is a critical division-by-zero vulnerability affecting LAME 3.99.5, triggered by processing a specially crafted malformed input file. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness. It is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and is currently inactive on the Hot List.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.99.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lame_project:lame:3.99.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0246 is in the 73rd 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2017/06/17/lame-divide-by-zero-in-parse_wave_header-get_audio-c
bugs.debian.org / 777159
sourceforge.net / p/lame/bugs/460
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