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CVE-2017-17480

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-17480 is a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in OpenJPEG 2.3.0, specifically within the pgxtovolume function, affecting various distributions of OpenJPEG including Canonical, Debian, and UCLouvain. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction and can lead to remote denial of service or potentially remote code execution. Despite its high severity, there is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uclouvain:openjpeg:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0513 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-17480Moderate

openjpeg: Stack-buffer overflow in the pgxtovolume function

Dec 8, 2017

References

github.com / uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1044
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00018.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4109-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4405
Third Party Advisory