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CVE-2017-8818
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…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 3.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 7 months later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% 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: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
- affected curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
References
5
- GLSA-201712-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-af0a.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1039898 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=163 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 102014 (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-2017-17761 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-8818)Record last updated .