critical
CVE-2017-8817
curl: FTP wildcard out of bounds read
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat3.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium), Ubuntu (medium).
Description
The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Photon OS 1.0 | curl | 7.58.0-1.ph1 |
| Photon OS 2.0 | curl | 7.58.0-1.ph2 |
| alpine 3.10 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.11 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.12 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.13 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.14 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.15 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
Show all 55 entries from 44 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Photon OS 1.0 | curl | 7.58.0-1.ph1 |
| Photon OS 2.0 | curl | 7.58.0-1.ph2 |
| alpine 3.10 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.11 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.12 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.13 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.14 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.15 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.20 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.21 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.22 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.23 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.24 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.4 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.5 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.6 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.7 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.8 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine 3.9 | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| alpine edge | curl | 7.57.0-r0 |
| amazon linux 1 | curl | 7.53.1-13.80.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | curl-debuginfo | 7.53.1-13.80.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | libcurl | 7.53.1-13.80.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | libcurl-devel | 7.53.1-13.80.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 2 | curl | 7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2 | curl-debuginfo | 7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2 | libcurl | 7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2 | libcurl-devel | 7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1 |
| debian 11 | curl | 7.57.0-1 |
| debian 12 | curl | 7.57.0-1 |
| debian 13 | curl | 7.57.0-1 |
| debian 14 | curl | 7.57.0-1 |
| debian 7 | curl | 7.26.0-1+wheezy23 |
| debian 8 | curl | 7.38.0-4+deb8u8 |
| debian 9 | curl | 7.52.1-5+deb9u3 |
| echo | curl | 7.57.0-1 |
| Red Hat | curl | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | libcurl | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | libcurl-devel | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | rh-dotnet21-curl | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | rh-dotnet21-libcurl | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | rh-dotnet21-libcurl-devel | no fix listed |
| root.io debian 11 | rootio-curl | 7.57.0-1 |
| root.io debian 12 | rootio-curl | 7.57.0-1 |
| root.io debian 13 | rootio-curl | 7.57.0-1 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | curl | 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13 |
| ubuntu 14.04-ESM | curl | 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | curl | 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5 |
| ubuntu 16.04-ESM | curl | 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5 |
| ubuntu 17.04 | curl | 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4 |
| ubuntu 17.10 | curl | 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2 |
References
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8817
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8817