CVE-2017-2800

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.

CVSS v3.1

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.0

8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

8.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 95th percentile

Published

2017-05-24

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-2799
• CVE-2017-2805
• CVE-2017-2798
• CVE-2017-2809
• CVE-2017-2797
• CVE-2017-2810