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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-8818 json

curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allow attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and application crash…

published 2017-11-29 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-17761

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allow attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library.

Patch / fix

  • curl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 7.57.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8818

  • curl openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.79.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10582-1

  • curl Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +18 more 7.57.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-8818

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • lib32-curl Arch Linux 7.57.0-1
  • lib32-libcurl-compat Arch Linux 7.57.0-1
  • lib32-libcurl-gnutls Arch Linux 7.57.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-521AVG-522AVG-523

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-8818 updated cvss 7.5

curl: Out-of-bound access in SSL related cleanup code

  • Red Hat .NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnetcore10-curl Red Hat .NET Core 1.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnetcore11-curl Red Hat .NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnet20-curl Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 curl, libcurl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 curl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 curl, libcurl
    +3 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 curl, libcurl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 curl, libcurl, libcurl-minimal Red Hat Software Collections httpd24-curl, httpd24-libcurl
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a curl and libcurl before 7.57.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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