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CVE-2017-9228

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9228 describes a critical heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Oniguruma 6.2.0, affecting Ruby through 2.4.1 and PHP through 7.1.5. This flaw stems from an uninitialized variable during regular expression compilation, leading to memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is highly severe, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) with low attack complexity over the network. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oniguruma_project:oniguruma:6.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.6.0, < 5.6.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0649 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (22)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-php70-php-0:7.0.27-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-php70-php-0:7.0.27-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-php70-php-0:7.0.27-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-php70-php-0:7.0.27-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-php70-php-0:7.0.27-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-php70-php-0:7.0.27-1.el6
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redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: rh-ruby22-ruby
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: ruby-200-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-ruby22-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-ruby23-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-ruby24-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php53
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: oniguruma
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-php56-php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-9228Moderate

oniguruma: Out-of-bounds heap write in bitset_set_range()

May 23, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1296
Third Party Advisory
github.com / kkos/oniguruma/commit/3b63d12038c8d8fc278e81c942fa9bec7c704c8b
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / kkos/oniguruma/issues/60
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory