CVE-2017-6458

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

6.51% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 93.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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

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

2017-03-27 17:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 15:33Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-03-03

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
• CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

d2ec3b8f87213bb7eb58160ba42a2a6b93279ea7a00ba42d0a16884bce4a066d

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• support.ntp.orghttp://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3379x_refsource_CONFIRM
• support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT208144x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com97051http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97051vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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• support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT208144x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-3349-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3349-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2017-72323a442fhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZUPPICJXWL3AWQB7I3AWUC74YON7UING/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• www.broadcom.comhttps://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2017-294/x_refsource_CONFIRM
• bto.bluecoat.comhttps://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa147x_refsource_CONFIRM
• seclists.org20171101 APPLE-SA-2017-10-31-8 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2017-09-25-1 macOS High Sierra 10.13http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Nov/7mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2017-20d54b2782https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KVLFA3J43QFIP4I7HE7KQ5FXSMJEKC6/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• support.f5.comhttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K99254031x_refsource_CONFIRM
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142284/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ntp-Updates.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• seclists.org20170925 APPLE-SA-2017-09-25-1 macOS High Sierra 10.13http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Sep/62mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
• www.securityfocus.com20170422 [slackware-security] ntp (SSA:2017-112-02)http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/540464/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2017-5ebac1c112https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4B7BMVXV53EE7XYW2KAVETDHTP452O3Z/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• support.hpe.comhttps://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_usx_refsource_CONFIRM
• cert-portal.siemens.comhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-211752.pdfx_refsource_CONFIRM
• us-cert.cisa.govhttps://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-159-11x_refsource_MISC