Is CVE-2017-18265 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2017-18265 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2017-18265?

CVE-2017-18265 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2017-18265?

CVE-2017-18265 has an EPSS score of 1.73% (75th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2017-18265?

Upgrade prosody on debian 11 to 0.10.0-1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2017-18265

HIGHEPSS 75th pctl

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Prosody before 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), related to an incompatibility with certain versions of the LuaSocket library, such as the lua-socket package from Debian stretch. The attacker needs to trigger a stream error. A crash can be observed in, for example, the c2s module.

How to fix

Remediation Available

prosodyDebian

Fixed in:0.10.0-1CVE-2017-18265

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 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

1.73%probability of exploitation in 30 days

75thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 75% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch2

Vendor Advisory1

prosody.im

Issue Tracking1

bugs.debian.org

Technical Description1

debian.org

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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.