CVE-2017-2800

critical

Published 2017-05-24 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.12.0+dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.12.0+dfsg-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.12.0+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.12.0+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.12.0+dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
wolfssl	wolfssl	`{"endIncluding":"3.10.2"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-295

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

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