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CVE-2017-8817 (GCVE-0-2017-8817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-29 18:00 – Updated: 2026-04-15 20:59
VLAI
Summary
The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-15 20:59 UTC
CWE
  • out-of-bounds read
  • CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 Affected: curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
Date Public
2017-11-29 00:00
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