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CVE-2017-18201

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-18201 describes a critical double free vulnerability (CWE-415) in GNU libcdio versions prior to 2.0.0, specifically within the get_cdtext_generic() function. This flaw carries a CVSS v3.0 score of 9.8, indicating a severe impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability risks, exploitable remotely without user interaction. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:libcdio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0330 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 36,821 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libcdio-0:0.92-3.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-18201Low

libcdio: Double free in get_cdtext_generic() in lib/driver/_cdio_generic.c

Feb 27, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3246
git.savannah.gnu.org / cgit/libcdio.git/commit
PatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/103190
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry