VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-0897

high
Published 2017-06-22 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

ExpressionEngine version 2.x < 2.11.8 and version 3.x < 3.5.5 create an object signing token with weak entropy. Successfully guessing the token can lead to remote code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
expressionengineexpressionengine2.0.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.0.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.0.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.4
expressionengineexpressionengine2.1.5
expressionengineexpressionengine2.2.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.2.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.2.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.3.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.3.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.4.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.4
expressionengineexpressionengine2.5.5
expressionengineexpressionengine2.6.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.6.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.7.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.7.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.7.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.7.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.8.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.8.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.9.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.9.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.9.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.9.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.10.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.10.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.10.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.10.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.11.0
expressionengineexpressionengine2.11.1
expressionengineexpressionengine2.11.2
expressionengineexpressionengine2.11.3
expressionengineexpressionengine2.11.4
expressionengineexpressionengine2.11.5
expressionengineexpressionengine2.11.6
expressionengineexpressionengine2.11.7
expressionengineexpressionengine3.0.0
expressionengineexpressionengine3.0.1
expressionengineexpressionengine3.0.2
expressionengineexpressionengine3.0.3
expressionengineexpressionengine3.0.4
expressionengineexpressionengine3.0.5
expressionengineexpressionengine3.0.6
expressionengineexpressionengine3.1.0
expressionengineexpressionengine3.1.1
expressionengineexpressionengine3.1.2
expressionengineexpressionengine3.1.3
expressionengineexpressionengine3.1.4
expressionengineexpressionengine3.2.0
expressionengineexpressionengine3.2.1
expressionengineexpressionengine3.3.0
expressionengineexpressionengine3.3.1
expressionengineexpressionengine3.3.2
expressionengineexpressionengine3.3.3
expressionengineexpressionengine3.3.4
expressionengineexpressionengine3.4.0
expressionengineexpressionengine3.4.1
expressionengineexpressionengine3.4.2
expressionengineexpressionengine3.4.3
expressionengineexpressionengine3.4.4
expressionengineexpressionengine3.4.5
expressionengineexpressionengine3.4.6
expressionengineexpressionengine3.4.7
expressionengineexpressionengine3.5.0
expressionengineexpressionengine3.5.1
expressionengineexpressionengine3.5.2
expressionengineexpressionengine3.5.3
expressionengineexpressionengine3.5.4

References

CWEs

CWE-330 CWE-331

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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