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CVE-2017-9765

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 42.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the soap_get function in Genivia gSOAP 2.7.x and 2.8.x before 2.8.48, as used on Axis cameras and other devices, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a large XML document, aka Devil's Ivy. NOTE: the large document would be blocked by many common web-server configurations on general-purpose computers.

Affected products

• Genivia gSOAP: 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 (+60)

References

• http://blog.senr.io/blog/devils-ivy-flaw-in-widely-used-third-party-code-impacts-millions
• http://blog.senr.io/devilsivy.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99868
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472807
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049348
• https://www.genivia.com/advisory.html#Security_advisory:_CVE-2017-9765_bug_in_certain_versions_of_gSOAP_2.7_up_to_2.8.47_%28June_21%2C_2017%29
• https://www.genivia.com/changelog.html#Version_2.8.48_upd_%2806/21/2017%29
• http://blog.senr.io/blog/devils-ivy-flaw-in-widely-used-third-party-code-impacts-millions
• http://blog.senr.io/devilsivy.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99868
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472807
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049348

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