Critical severity · published Jan 3, 2018
CVE-2017-1000471
EmbedThis GoAhead Webserver version 4.0.0 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in the CGI handler resulting in memory corruption or denial of service
9.8
CVSS
8.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
EmbedThis GoAhead Webserver version 4.0.0 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in the CGI handler resulting in memory corruption or denial of service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)8.6% · higher than 95% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GO
Goahead · Embedthis
4.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000471
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000471
Patch
https://github.com/embedthis/goahead/commit/5e6be61e42448f503e75e287dc332b1ecbf2a665#diff-7c9c60c790648b06210f57b9e2f53ca7
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/embedthis/goahead/pull/258
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