CVE-2017-5972

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

23.89% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 97.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

Moderate. 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

2017-02-14 06:30Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 15:18Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-02-12

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

529cebb97a3cea4f67d8778bb06ab704b97a12ef913c64ab863830949a6cd518

• seclists.orghttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/573x_refsource_MISC
• www.exploit-db.com41350https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41350/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422081x_refsource_MISC
• cxsecurity.comhttps://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017020112x_refsource_MISC
• security-tracker.debian.orghttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5972x_refsource_MISC
• githubengineering.comhttps://githubengineering.com/syn-flood-mitigation-with-synsanity/x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com96231http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96231vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• packetstormsecurity.comhttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141083/CentOS7-Kernel-Denial-Of-Service.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• access.redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-5972x_refsource_MISC