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CVE-2017-9105

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9105 is a pointer corruption vulnerability in adns versions prior to 1.5.2, affecting products like Fedora and GNU adns. This flaw occurs when a nameserver initiates communication due to an incorrect number of pointer dereferences. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it presents a significant risk of remote code execution, requiring low privileges and network access for exploitation. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or community discussion, suggesting a low current threat landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:adns:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0360 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 17,805 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRVHN3GGVNQWAOL3PWC5FLAV7HUESLZR
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UGFZ4SPV6KFQK6ZNUZFB5Y32OYFOM5YJ
chiark.greenend.org.uk / pipermail/adns-announce/2020/000004.html
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
chiark.greenend.org.uk / ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git
Third Party Advisory
chiark.greenend.org.uk / ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git