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.
Published: 2017-11-29
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1195-1 curl security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4051-1 curl security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-17760 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3498-1 curl vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3498-2 curl vulnerability
History

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01426}

epss

{'score': 0.01608}


Subscriptions

Debian Debian Linux
Haxx Curl Libcurl
Redhat Rhel Software Collections
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-15T20:59:39.712Z

Reserved: 2017-05-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8817

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:48:21.954Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-29T18:29:00.347

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

Link: CVE-2017-8817

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-11-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8817 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses