VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-8817

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability11.18%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-11-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references