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CVE-2017-2800

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

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.

Affected products

• wolfSSL: through 3.10.2

References

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

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