CVE-2017-9153

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9153 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the libautotrace.a library within AutoTrace 0.31.1. This flaw, located in the pnm_load_rawpbm function, allows for remote code execution with a CVSS score of 9.8. While highly severe, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		0.31.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:autotrace_project:autotrace:0.31.1:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.46%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

82.8%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0246 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: autotrace

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: autotrace

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-9153Low

autotrace: Multiple security issues

May 20, 2017

References

blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2017/05/20/autotrace-multiple-vulnerabilities-the-autotrace-nightmare

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201708-09

Third Party Advisory