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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-8816 json

The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (intege…

published 2017-11-29 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-17759

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.5%
EPSS 8.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields.

Patch / fix

  • curl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 7.57.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8816

  • curl Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8816

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • httpd24-curl RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.61.1-1.el6
  • httpd24-curl RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.61.1-1.el7
  • httpd24-httpd RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 2.4.34-7.el6
  • httpd24-httpd RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 2.4.34-7.el7
  • httpd24-mod_md RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 2.4.34-7.el7
  • httpd24-libcurl RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.61.1-1.el6
  • httpd24-libcurl RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.61.1-1.el7
  • httpd24-mod_ssl RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 1:2.4.34-7.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:3558

  • curl SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 7.37.0-37.11.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0122-1

  • curl openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.79.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10582-1

  • curl Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +18 more 7.57.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-8816

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • lib32-curl Arch Linux 7.57.0-1
  • lib32-libcurl-compat Arch Linux 7.57.0-1
  • lib32-libcurl-gnutls Arch Linux 7.57.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-521AVG-522AVG-523

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-8816 updated cvss 7.5

curl: NTLM buffer overflow via integer overflow

  • Red Hat .NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnetcore10-curl Red Hat .NET Core 1.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnetcore11-curl Red Hat .NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnet20-curl
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat .NET Core 2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnet21-curl, rh-dotnet21-libcurl
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) httpd24-curl 7.61.1-1.el6, httpd24-httpd 2.4.34-7.el6, httpd24-nghttp2 1.7.1-7.el6, httpd24-libcurl 7.61.1-1.el6, httpd24-mod_ssl 2.4.34-7.el6, httpd24-mod_ldap 2.4.34-7.el6, +5 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) httpd24-curl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-httpd 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-mod_md 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-nghttp2 1.7.1-7.el7, httpd24-libcurl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-mod_ssl 2.4.34-7.el7, +6 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) httpd24-curl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-httpd 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-mod_md 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-nghttp2 1.7.1-7.el7, httpd24-libcurl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-mod_ssl 2.4.34-7.el7, +6 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) httpd24-curl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-httpd 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-mod_md 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-nghttp2 1.7.1-7.el7, httpd24-libcurl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-mod_ssl 2.4.34-7.el7, +6 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) httpd24-curl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-httpd 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-mod_md 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-nghttp2 1.7.1-7.el7, httpd24-libcurl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-mod_ssl 2.4.34-7.el7, +6 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) httpd24-curl 7.61.1-1.el6, httpd24-httpd 2.4.34-7.el6, httpd24-nghttp2 1.7.1-7.el6, httpd24-libcurl 7.61.1-1.el6, httpd24-mod_ssl 2.4.34-7.el6, httpd24-mod_ldap 2.4.34-7.el6, +5 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) httpd24-curl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-httpd 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-mod_md 2.4.34-7.el7, httpd24-nghttp2 1.7.1-7.el7, httpd24-libcurl 7.61.1-1.el7, httpd24-mod_ssl 2.4.34-7.el7, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:3558
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 curl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 curl, libcurl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 curl, libcurl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 curl, libcurl, libcurl-minimal
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-19-155-01 updated cvss 9.8

PHOENIX CONTACT PLCNext AXC F 2152

  • Phoenix Contact AXC F 2152 2404267 version 1.x, 1046568 (Starterkit) version 1.x
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation “Phoenix Contact recommends affected users update to firmware release 2019.0 LTS or later, update to PLCNext Engineer release 2019.0 LTS or later, and apply the following specific mitigations below:” phoenixcontact.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
6 mo ago

Exploit prediction

8.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a curl and libcurl before 7.57.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.