CVE-2017-9740

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

1.78% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 77.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (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: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

2017-07-26 19:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 17:18Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-06-18

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

40c486d9ee94e9a1cd1fa33eb65b2d2f619b39b8741aad20b8ac9347d7a9ca56

• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201811-12https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.securityfocus.com99983http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99983vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• git.ghostscript.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=961b10cdd71403072fb99401a45f3bef6ce53626x_refsource_CONFIRM
• bugs.ghostscript.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698064x_refsource_CONFIRM