CVE-2017-2779 is a memory corruption vulnerability in the RSRC segment parsing functionality of LabVIEW 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. A specially crafted Virtual Instrument (VI) file can trigger an arbitrary null write, potentially leading to code execution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploit modules available in Metasploit or ExploitDB. While it has received some community discussion and media coverage, it is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2014CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2014:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2015CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2016CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2017CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2017:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.