Is CVE-2017-1085 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2017-1085 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2017-1085?

CVE-2017-1085 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2017-1085?

CVE-2017-1085 has an EPSS score of 1.85% (77th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1085?

Upgrade freebsd to 11.2 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2017-1085

HIGHEPSS 77th pctl

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, an application which calls setrlimit() to increase RLIMIT_STACK may turn a read-only memory region below the stack into a read-write region. A specially crafted executable could be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the user context.

CWE-119Buffer Overflow

How to fix

Remediation Available

freebsdNVD

Affected:< 11.2Fixed in:11.2CVE-2017-1085derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.85%probability of exploitation in 30 days

77thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 77% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

qualys.com

Third-Party Advisory1

exploit-db.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-119 (Buffer Overflow) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2023-4966	Critical	9.4	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2017-11882	High	7.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2020-0796	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2008-4250	Critical	9.8	99%	KEV	-
CVE-2017-15944	Critical	9.8	98%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2015-0014	High	10.0	97%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.