CVE-2017-12781 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting libebml2, mkclean, and mkvalidator, allowing remote attackers to crash an application via a crafted MKV file. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to a high impact on availability (A:H) due to a null pointer dereference. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2012-08-26CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matroska:libebml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matroska:mkclean:0.8.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matroska:mkvalidator:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.