CVE-2017-17640 is a critical SQL Injection vulnerability affecting Advanced World Database 2.0.5, specifically through the 'country' or 'state' parameters in city.php and the 'country' parameter in state.php. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity over the network. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-43311) exists, indicating public exploit code availability, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:advanced_world_database_project:advanced_world_database:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.