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Vulnerability details: VCID-dxkp-m3k2-aaaf
Vulnerability ID VCID-dxkp-m3k2-aaaf
Aliases CVE-2017-15897
Summary Node.js had a bug in versions 8.X and 9.X which caused buffers to not be initialized when the encoding for the fill value did not match the encoding specified. For example, 'Buffer.alloc(0x100, "This is not correctly encoded", "hex");' The buffer implementation was updated such that the buffer will be initialized to all zeros in these cases.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-665 Improper Initialization
System Score Found at
generic_textual Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-15897.html
cvssv3 3.7 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-15897.json
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rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532534
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15897
generic_textual Medium https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15897
cvssv3 3.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15897
cvssv3.1 3.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15897
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-15897.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-15897.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-15897
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15897
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/
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CVE-2017-15897 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15897
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-15897.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15897
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15897
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

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none

low

high

none

required

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high

low

none

high

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none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15897
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.22825
EPSS Score 0.00054
Published At Nov. 1, 2024, midnight
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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