CVE-2017-20005

moderate-risk
Published 2021-06-06

NGINX before 1.13.6 has a buffer overflow for years that exceed four digits, as demonstrated by a file with a modification date in 1969 that causes an integer overflow (or a false modification date far in the future), when encountered by the autoindex module.

Do I need to act?

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3.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate 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
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Affected Vendors

Debian F5

References (12)

Release Notes http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES
Patch https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/0206ebe76f748bb39d9de4dd4b3fce777fdfdccf
Patch https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/b900cc28fcbb4cf5a32ab62f80b59292e1c85b4b
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00009.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0006/
Exploit https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1368
Release Notes http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES
Patch https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/0206ebe76f748bb39d9de4dd4b3fce777fdfdccf
Patch https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/b900cc28fcbb4cf5a32ab62f80b59292e1c85b4b
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00009.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0006/
Exploit https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1368
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 7/34 · Low
Exposure 7/34 · Low