CVE-2017-14798

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

0.99% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 62.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/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

2018-03-01 19:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-16 19:20Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-09-27

Assigning CNA

microfocus

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.3)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-61UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) FollowingCompound
• CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class

Data version

5.1

Document digest

0b57753ef70afaf8bc5c647c34a9864632dda0dd6432eda1459e80ccb42db766

• www.exploit-db.com45184https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45184/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• bugzilla.suse.comhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062722x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.suse.comhttps://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2017-14798/x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.suse.comSUSE-SU-2017:3107http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2017-November/003420.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE