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CVE-2017-5502

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5502 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in JasPer 1.900.17, specifically within the libjasper/jp2/jp2_dec.c component, caused by a left shift of a negative value. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction and local access to trigger a crash, impacting availability but not confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0133 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2017-5502Low

jasper: Left shift of negative value in jp2_validate() in jp2_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