CVE-2017-7609

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

1.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 74.7% 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

2017-04-09 14:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 16:12Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-04-09

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

525659f694fbdc18c09dfddfe79db00083abf7d05deee60cbfded0a30de36c54

• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3670-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_decompress-elf_compress-cx_refsource_MISC
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201710-10https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1590http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE