CVE-2017-20166 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Ecto 2.2.0 lacks a certain protection mechanism associated with the interaction between is_nil and raise.

Published: 2023-01-10

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ecto_project:ecto:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-0331	Ecto 2.2.0 lacks a certain protection mechanism associated with the interaction between is_nil and raise.
Github GHSA	GHSA-4r2f-6fm9-2qgh	Ecto lacks a protection mechanism
Github GHSA	GHSA-2xxx-fhc8-9qvq	Ecto missing `is_nil` requirement

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00601.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xxx-fhc8-9qvq
https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/commit/db55b0cba6525c24ebddc88ef9ae0c1c00620250
https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/2125
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/elixir-ecto/0m4NPfg_MMU

History

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-754
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Ecto Project Ecto

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-09T17:30:12.094Z

Reserved: 2023-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-20166

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:45:26.015Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-10T06:15:09.610

Modified: 2025-04-09T18:15:42.910

Link: CVE-2017-20166

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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