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Vulnerability details: VCID-vh9x-2eyt-aaab
Vulnerability ID VCID-vh9x-2eyt-aaab
Aliases CVE-2017-15804
Summary The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains a buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-15804.html
rhas Moderate https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0805
rhas Moderate https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1879
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-15804.json
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505298
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15804
cvssv2 4.6 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3 5.9 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15804
cvssv3 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15804
generic_textual High https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3534-1
generic_textual High https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3534-1
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-15804.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-15804.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-15804
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15804
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22332
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a159b53fa059947cc2548e3b0d5bdcf7b9630ba8
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a159b53fa059947cc2548e3b0d5bdcf7b9630ba8
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3534-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3534-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101535
1505298 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505298
879955 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879955
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2017-15804 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15804
GLSA-201804-02 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-02
RHSA-2018:0805 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0805
RHSA-2018:1879 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1879
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-15804.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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15804
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:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15804
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 0.45041
EPSS Score 0.00222
Published At May 8, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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