CVE-2017-12920

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

1.29% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 68.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-08-28 19:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 18:51Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-08-17

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

67981d2d6f5fcf369a7af04e143f05e75a1c31c7634231dacf28efc30de81896

• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/09/libfpx-null-pointer-dereference-in-cdirectorygetdirentry-dir-cxx/x_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170817 libfpx: NULL pointer dereference in CDirectory:etDirEntry (dir.cxx)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/17/12mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST