CVE-2017-2800

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    CVE-2017-2800

    Published: 24 May 2017Last Modified: 22 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A specially crafted x509 certificate can cause a single out of bounds byte overwrite in wolfSSL through 3.10.2 resulting in potential certificate validation vulnerabilities, denial of service and possible remote code execution. In order to trigger this vulnerability, the attacker needs to supply a malicious x509 certificate to either a server or a client application using this library.

    References: https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v3.10.2-stable
    v3.10.0a
    v3.10.0-stable

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High