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CVE-2017-6435

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6435 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting libplist 1.12, a library used by libimobiledevice. A local attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted plist file, leading to memory corruption. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.0), it requires local access and user interaction, with the primary impact being system availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libplist_project:libplist:1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 381 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libplist
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libplist

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-6435Low

libplist: Missing return value check from malloc()

Feb 7, 2017

References

github.com / libimobiledevice/libplist/commit/fbd8494d5e4e46bf2e90cb6116903e404374fb56
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / libimobiledevice/libplist/issues/93
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00002.html
securityfocus.com / bid/97586