Vulnerability Instance
Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.
GET /api/vulnerabilities/170770?format=api
{ "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/170770?format=api", "vulnerability_id": "VCID-82mm-jjnu-sbfa", "summary": "In Puppet Enterprise 2017.1.x and 2017.2.1, using specially formatted strings with certain formatting characters as Classifier node group names or RBAC role display names causes errors, effectively causing a DOS to the service. This was resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2017.2.2.", "aliases": [ { "alias": "CVE-2017-2296" } ], "fixed_packages": [ { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/935972?format=api", "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/puppet@0?distro=bullseye", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:deb/debian/puppet@0%3Fdistro=bullseye" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/935962?format=api", "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/puppet@5.5.22-2?distro=bullseye", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:deb/debian/puppet@5.5.22-2%3Fdistro=bullseye" } ], "affected_packages": [], "references": [ { "reference_url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-2296", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57596", "published_at": "2026-04-01T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57681", "published_at": "2026-04-02T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57703", "published_at": "2026-04-04T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57677", "published_at": "2026-05-11T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57732", "published_at": "2026-04-08T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57734", "published_at": "2026-04-09T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.5775", "published_at": "2026-04-11T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57729", "published_at": "2026-04-12T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.5771", "published_at": "2026-04-13T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57739", "published_at": "2026-04-16T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57735", "published_at": "2026-04-18T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57713", "published_at": "2026-04-21T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.5767", "published_at": "2026-04-24T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.5769", "published_at": "2026-04-26T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57668", "published_at": "2026-05-07T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57623", "published_at": "2026-05-05T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.5773", "published_at": "2026-05-09T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57706", "published_at": "2026-05-12T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00353", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.57774", "published_at": "2026-05-14T12:55:00Z" } ], "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-2296" } ], "weaknesses": [], "exploits": [], "severity_range_score": null, "exploitability": null, "weighted_severity": null, "risk_score": null, "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-82mm-jjnu-sbfa" }