CVE-2017-15939

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

1.72% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 77.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

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

2017-10-27 21:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:13Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-10-27

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

8aac267a10b706aa756061464383d39d19efd517ec2409418426478ee22916d7

• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201801-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22205x_refsource_MISC
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=a54018b72d75abf2e74bf36016702da06399c1d9x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com101613http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101613vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/24/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2017-15023/x_refsource_MISC