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CVE-2017-4981
EMC RSA BSAFE Cert-C before 2.9.0.5 contains a potential improper certificate processing vulnerability.
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
EMC RSA BSAFE Cert-C before 2.9.0.5 contains a potential improper certificate processing vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By dell
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
RSA BSAFE Cert-C RSA BSAFE Cert-C version 2.9.0.5
- affected RSA BSAFE Cert-C RSA BSAFE Cert-C version 2.9.0.5
References
3
- 1038695 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540720/30/0/threaded (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 99044 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2017-14094 (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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