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CVE-2017-6178

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6178 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in USBPcap 1.1.0.0, affecting the usbpcap_project, where a crafted IOCTL call can trigger a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a low-privileged local attacker can achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog or showing active exploitation, a public exploit (EDB-41542) exists, yet it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:usbpcap_project:usbpcap:1.1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-41542 · Mar 7, 2017
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0104 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 16,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/141526/USBPcap-1.1.0.0-Privilege-Escalation.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exploit-db.com / exploits/41542
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/97026
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry