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CVE-2017-1000099

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-1000099 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting haxx libcurl. When processing file:// URLs, libcurl could inadvertently expose sensitive heap memory data due to an uninitialized buffer being sent to the user instead of the intended metadata. This flaw has a CVSSv3 score of 6.5, indicating a high confidentiality impact with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction over a network vector. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.54.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl:7.54.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0307 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
jitsipatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 7.54.1
View patch
sierra_wirelesspatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 7.54.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

redhatCVE-2017-1000099Moderate

curl: FILE buffer read out of bounds

Aug 9, 2017
sierra_wirelessllm-sierra_wireless-7e9d13822ffecf08MEDIUM

FILE buffer read out of bounds

Aug 9, 2017
jitsillm-jitsi-0c595b8e75391c30MEDIUM

FILE buffer read out of bounds

Aug 9, 2017

References

curl.haxx.se / 0809C.patch
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201709-14
PatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/100281
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039119
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
curl.haxx.se / docs/adv_20170809C.html
Vendor Advisory