Is CVE-2017-17090 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2017-17090 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2017-17090?

CVE-2017-17090 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2017-17090?

CVE-2017-17090 has an EPSS score of 81.51% (100th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2017-17090?

Upgrade asterisk on debian 11 to 1:13.18.3~dfsg-1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2017-17090

HIGHEPSS 100th pctl

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in chan_skinny.c in Asterisk Open Source 13.18.2 and older, 14.7.2 and older, and 15.1.2 and older, and Certified Asterisk 13.13-cert7 and older. If the chan_skinny (aka SCCP protocol) channel driver is flooded with certain requests, it can cause the asterisk process to use excessive amounts of virtual memory, eventually causing asterisk to stop processing requests of any kind.

CWE-459

How to fix

Remediation Available

asteriskDebian

Fixed in:1:13.18.3~dfsg-1CVE-2017-17090

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

81.51%probability of exploitation in 30 days

100thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory2

Third-Party Advisory1

securityfocus.com

Other references4

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CVE-2021-39327	Medium	5.3	72%	-	-
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CVE-2022-1552	High	8.8	12%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-18924	High	8.8	9.5%	-	-
CVE-2022-21125	Medium	5.5	6.5%	-	Fix
CVE-2023-41835	High	7.5	6.3%	-	Fix

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