CVE-2017-2800 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-05-24

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 8.9% 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

wolfSSL

wolfSSL

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`3.10.2`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wolfssl:wolfssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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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

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.08887.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984/

History

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Subscriptions

Wolfssl Wolfssl

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published: 2017-05-24T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:02:07.782Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-2800

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-24T14:29:00.473

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-2800

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-295

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