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CVE-2017-17256

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-17256 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the H323 protocol affecting numerous Huawei AR series routers, Secospace USG series firewalls, and other Huawei products. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted H323 packets, leading to a memory leak. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can result in a denial of service (DoS) condition. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
v200r006c10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:ar120-s_firmware:v200r006c10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
v200r007c00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:ar120-s_firmware:v200r007c00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
v200r008c20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:ar120-s_firmware:v200r008c20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
v200r008c30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:ar120-s_firmware:v200r008c30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
v200r006c10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:ar1200_firmware:v200r006c10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0128 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

huawei.com / en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171227-01-h323-en
Vendor Advisory