CVE-2017-8817
curl: FTP wildcard out of bounds read
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · November 29, 2017
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 3.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read