CVE-2017-8817 is a critical out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the FTP wildcard function of curl and libcurl versions prior to 7.57.0, affecting various Debian and Haxx products. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) or potentially other unspecified impacts by providing a string ending with a '[' character. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 7.21.0, <= 7.56.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
> 7.21.0, <= 7.56.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.