CVE-2017-9053

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9053 is a critical heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in libdwarf, specifically within the _dwarf_read_loc_expr_op() function, affecting libdwarf versions from 2017-03-21. This flaw, rated 9.1 CRITICAL, allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely achieve high confidentiality and availability impacts with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		2017-03-21CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:libdwarf_project:libdwarf:2017-03-21:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

5.2

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.74%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

75.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-24

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0174 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libdwarf

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-9053Low

libdwarf: heap-based buffer over-read in _dwarf_read_loc_expr_op()

Mar 21, 2017

References

prevanders.net / dwarfbug.html

Third Party Advisory