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CVE-2017-6318

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6318 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting saned in sane-backends 1.0.25, including specific openSUSE Leap and sane-backends_project versions. It allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by sending a specially crafted SANE_NET_CONTROL_OPTION packet. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a high impact on confidentiality with no user interaction required and low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sane-backends_project:sane-backends:1.0.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0296 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: sane-backends
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: sane-backends
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: sane-backends

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-6318Low

sane-backends: SANE_NET_CONTROL_OPTION response packet may contain memory contents of the server

Dec 16, 2016

References

lists.alioth.debian.org / pipermail/sane-devel/2017-February/035054.html
Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.alioth.debian.org / pipermail/sane-devel/2017-February/035059.html
Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2017-03/msg00016.html
Third Party Advisory
alioth.debian.org / tracker/index.php
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.alioth.debian.org / pipermail/sane-devel/2017-February/035029.html
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4470-1
securityfocus.com / bid/97028