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CVE-2017-7458

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The NetworkInterface::getHost function in NetworkInterface.cpp in ntopng before 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty field that should have contained a hostname or IP address.

Affected products

• ntopng: through 2.4

References

• https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/blob/3.0/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/01f47e04fd7c8d54399c9e465f823f0017069f8f
• https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/blob/3.0/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/01f47e04fd7c8d54399c9e465f823f0017069f8f

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