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CVE-2017-5980

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5980 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in zziplib version 0.13.62, specifically within the zzip_mem_entry_new function, which affects products like gdraheim zziplib. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) can be triggered by a remote attacker through user interaction with a crafted ZIP file, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and application crash. While the potential impact is high availability, the attack complexity is low. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.13.62CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gdraheim:zziplib:0.13.62:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0128 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 5,760 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 Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: zziplib

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5980Low

zziplib: NULL pointer dereference in zzip_mem_entry_new (memdisk.c)

Feb 9, 2017

References

blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2017/02/09/zziplib-null-pointer-dereference-in-zzip_mem_entry_new-memdisk-c
ExploitThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3878
securityfocus.com / bid/96268