CVE-2017-17717 describes a critical vulnerability in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager versions through 2.14.5, where the LDAP integration feature uses weak password encryption due to a hardcoded value. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating that an unauthenticated attacker can remotely exploit it with low complexity to achieve full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.14.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sonatype:nexus_repository_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.