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CVE-2017-8817

curl: FTP wildcard out of bounds read

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.1

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

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read