CVE-2017-7555
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 1.2%augeas - security update
Published: 8/17/2017Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-7555DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7555
Description
Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/augeasfrom 0, < 1.4.0-r5
- Debian/augeasfrom 0, < 1.8.1-1
- Debian/augeasfrom 0, < 0.10.0-1+deb7u1
- Debian/augeasfrom 0, < 1.2.0-0.2+deb8u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |