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CVE-2017-2626
It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for…
- 5.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.46%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 60% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for session hijacking using the information available from the process list.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.2.
Affected products
References
9
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libICE/commit/?id=ff5e59f32255913bb1cdf51441b98c9107ae165b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201704-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2626 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1865 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1037919 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 96480 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190714 Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] libICE 1.0.10 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20191123 [SECURITY] [DLA 2002-1] libice security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-11787 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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