CVE-2017-7555

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7555
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7555.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7555
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-08-17T19:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-14T16:13:43.583054Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/hercules-team/augeas

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Affected versions

Other

bug-78
bug-79
bug/17
bug/26
hg-to-git-conversion
ml-syntax-start
remove-any-first-follow
snapshot-1

release-0.*

release-0.0.1
release-0.0.2
release-0.0.3
release-0.0.4
release-0.0.5
release-0.0.6
release-0.0.7
release-0.0.8
release-0.1.0
release-0.1.1
release-0.10.0
release-0.2.0
release-0.2.1
release-0.2.2
release-0.3.0
release-0.3.1
release-0.3.2
release-0.3.3
release-0.3.4
release-0.3.5
release-0.3.6
release-0.4.0
release-0.4.1
release-0.4.2
release-0.5.0
release-0.5.1
release-0.5.2
release-0.5.3
release-0.6.0
release-0.7.0
release-0.7.1
release-0.7.2
release-0.7.3
release-0.7.4
release-0.8.0
release-0.8.1
release-0.9.0

release-1.*

release-1.0.0
release-1.1.0
release-1.2.0
release-1.3.0
release-1.4.0
release-1.5.0
release-1.6.0
release-1.7.0
release-1.8.0