CVE-2017-1000230

high

Published 2017-11-17 · 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:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The Snap7 Server version 1.4.1 can be crashed when the ItemCount field of the ReadVar or WriteVar functions of the S7 protocol implementation in Snap7 are provided with unexpected input, thus resulting in denial of service attack.

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

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
snap7_project	snap7_server	`1.4.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.