CVE-2017-2800 — Vulnetix

CVE-2017-2800 PUBLISHED

A specially crafted x509 certificate can cause a single out of bounds byte overwrite in wolfSSL through 3.10.2 resulting in potential certificate validation vulnerabilities, denial of service and possible remote code execution. In order to trigger this vulnerability, the attacker needs to supply a malicious x509 certificate to either a server or a client application using this library.

EPSS 8.89% · 92.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

8.89%

92.7th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	wolfssl	0, 3.4.8+dfsg-1

Exploit Intelligence

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293 (nist-nvd)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984/ (nist-nvd)
wolfSSL 3.10.2 - x509 Certificate Text Parsing Off-by-One (0day-today)
wolfSSL 3.10.2 - x509 Certificate Text Parsing Off-by-One (0day-today)

Timeline

May 9, 2017 PoC Published
May 24, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
Apr 3, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2800 third-party-advisory
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2017-0293/ third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2800 third-party-advisory

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