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CVE-2017-8817

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
0.11175
Risk score
43.11
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2017-11-29
Modified
2026-04-15
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2017-17760, GHSA-9HFV-GH9C-VCFV
Products
n/a:curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
Sources
euvd EUVD-2017-17760

Description

The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.

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