CVE-2017-8366 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the strescape function of Ettercap 0.8.2, affecting the ettercap_project ettercap product. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially achieve arbitrary code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV entry, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ettercap_project:ettercap:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.