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CVE-2017-5500

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5500 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting JasPer 1.900.17, specifically within the libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c component. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by manipulating a left shift operation involving a negative value. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5, it requires user interaction and local access to exploit, leading to high availability impact but no confidentiality or integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.900.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jasper_project:jasper:1.900.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0133 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 5,760 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5500Low

jasper: Invalid exponent shift in jpc_calcabsstepsize() in jpc_dec.c

Oct 28, 2016

References

blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2017/01/16/jasper-multiple-crashes-with-ubsan
ExploitThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95666