CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-2800
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• wolfssl wolfssl (<= 3.10.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry