CVE-2017-15897
low-risk
Published 2017-12-11
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.
Do I need to act?
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0.64% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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3
CVSS 3.1/10
Low
NETWORK
/ HIGH complexity
Affected Vendors
References (2)
20
/ 100
low-risk
Severity
11/34 · Low
Exploitability
2/34 · Minimal
Exposure
7/34 · Low