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CVE-2017-12588

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-134

Description

The zmq3 input and output modules in rsyslog before 8.28.0 interpreted description fields as format strings, possibly allowing a format string attack with unspecified impact.

Affected products

• rsyslog: through 8.27.0

References

• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/062d0c671a29f7c6f7dff4a2f1f35df375bbb30b
• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1565
• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/062d0c671a29f7c6f7dff4a2f1f35df375bbb30b
• https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1565
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0009/

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