CVE-2017-8891 describes a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Dropbox Lepton version 1.2.1, where a malformed lepton file can cause a segmentation fault and application crash due to improper thread setup. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to trigger a high impact on availability (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dropbox:lepton:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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