CVE-2017-6542

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

21.82% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 97.5% 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

2017-03-27 17:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 15:33Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-03-08

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

Data version

5.1

Document digest

5b531b1a7576828d9936d42cf9811f41a2317a0be41822d948a41729296bb532

• www.securityfocus.com97156http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97156vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.exploit-db.com42137https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42137/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201703-03https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201703-03vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• git.tartarus.orghttps://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ff22863d895cb7ebfced4cf923a012a614adaa8x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securitytracker.com1038067http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038067vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• www.chiark.greenend.org.ukhttp://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2017:0741http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-03/msg00055.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201706-09https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-09vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO