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CVE-2017-8817

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• curl: from 7.21.0 through 7.56.1
• curl: from 7.21.0 (excl.) through 7.56.1

References

• http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051
• http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558

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