CVE-2017-12942

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

2.37% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 82.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

2017-08-18 14:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 18:51Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-08-18

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

20e47c851471b6626359ee05c17bd63b656388729ccb707d3cfc02c98e532834

• seclists.orghttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/290x_refsource_MISC
• kc.mcafee.comhttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10241x_refsource_CONFIRM
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201709-24https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-24vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO