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CVE-2017-7555

augeas: Improper handling of escaped strings leading to memory corruption

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · August 17, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in augeas affecting the handling of escaped strings. An attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write