CVE-2017-6517

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

46.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 98.7% 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

2017-03-23 20:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 15:33Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-03-07

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-427Uncontrolled Search Path ElementBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

f7b232ad83a599ef23c611ac9795f999cca988753d829dd1541614d4cdff38b1

• seclists.org20170316 Skype Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability (api-ms-win-core-winrt-string-l1-1-0.dll)http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Mar/44mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
• twitter.comhttps://twitter.com/tiger_tigerboy/status/755332687141883904x_refsource_MISC
• twitter.comhttps://twitter.com/vysecurity/status/845013670103003138x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com96969http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96969vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.securitytracker.com1038209http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038209vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• technet.microsoft.comhttps://technet.microsoft.com/security/cc308575.aspxx_refsource_CONFIRM
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141650/Skype-7.16.0.102-DLL-Hijacking.htmlx_refsource_MISC