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CVE-2017-6198

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

The Supervisor in Sandstorm doesn't set and enforce the resource limits of a process. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by launching a fork bomb in the sandbox, or by using a large amount of disk space.

Affected products

• Sandstorm: before 0.203 — fixed in 0.203

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Sandstorm 0.203. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://devco.re/blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200-en/
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.202/src/sandstorm/supervisor.c++#L824
• https://devco.re/blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200-en/
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.202/src/sandstorm/supervisor.c++#L824

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