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CVE-2017-17833

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-17833 is a critical heap-related memory corruption vulnerability affecting OpenSLP versions 1.0.2 and 1.1.0, impacting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, Lenovo, and Red Hat. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk as an unauthenticated attacker can exploit it remotely with low complexity, potentially leading to denial-of-service or remote code execution. Despite its critical severity, there is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openslp:openslp:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openslp:openslp:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0389 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 36,833 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openslp-1:2.0.0-3.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: openslp-1:2.0.0-7.el7_5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-17833Important

openslp: Heap memory corruption in slpd/slpd_process.c allows denial of service or potentially code execution

Apr 19, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2240
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2308
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00029.html
Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202005-12
sourceforge.net / p/openslp/mercurial/ci/151f07745901cbdba6e00e4889561b4083250da1
PatchThird Party Advisory
support.lenovo.com / us/en/solutions/LEN-18247
PatchThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3708-1
Third Party Advisory