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high 7.5

CVE-2017-8825 json

A null dereference vulnerability has been found in the MIME handling component of LibEtPan before 1.8, as used in MailCore and MailCore 2.

published 2017-05-08 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-17768

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A null dereference vulnerability has been found in the MIME handling component of LibEtPan before 1.8, as used in MailCore and MailCore 2. A crash can occur in low-level/imf/mailimf.c during a failed parse of a Cc header containing multiple e-mail addresses.

Patch / fix

  • libetpan Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8825

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-2017-8825 updated cvss 5.3

libetpan: NULL pointer dereference inthe MIME handling component

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

1.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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