Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2017-12963

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12963 describes an illegal address access vulnerability within the Sass::Eval::operator() function in LibSass 3.4.5, leading to a remote denial of service (DoS) attack. This flaw is similar to CVE-2017-11555 but persists even after the vendor's attempted fix for the earlier vulnerability. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges, and its primary impact is a complete denial of service. The EPSS score is low, suggesting a minimal likelihood of exploitation in the wild. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are also minimal, indicating a lack of widespread attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libsass:libsass:3.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0123 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory