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CVE-2017-6198

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6198 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Sandstorm, where the Supervisor fails to enforce resource limits on processes. This allows remote attackers to launch fork bombs or consume excessive disk space within a sandbox. Rated Medium (CVSS 6.5), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low privileges, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.203CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sandstorm:sandstorm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

devco.re / blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200-en
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.202/src/sandstorm/supervisor.c++
Vendor Advisory