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CVE-2017-20005 Critical · 9.8 EPSS 3.3%

NGINX before 1.13.6 has a buffer overflow for years that exceed four digits, as demonstrated by a file with a…

Summary

NGINX before 1.13.6 contains a critical buffer overflow in the autoindex module triggered by file modification dates with years exceeding four digits, such as a 1969 date or a false far-future date, which causes an integer overflow. Any system running an affected version of NGINX is impacted.

Official description · CVE.org

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.

Breakdown
28.4 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
1
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 6 Jun 2021. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

What security researchers reported

Named in 1 threat report
1 reportTrustwave

Reports are matched by finding the exact id CVE-2017-20005 in their text; nobody has reviewed the match. One passage is shown per report, at most 320 characters, linked to the original.

References

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