VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-8798

critical
Published 2017-05-11 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Integer signedness error in MiniUPnP MiniUPnPc v1.4.20101221 through v2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-43501 dos multiple
tintinweb · 2017-05-11

MiniUPnP MiniUPnPc < 2.0 - Remote Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 2.0.20170509-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.9.20140610-3
sid Fixed 1.9.20140610-3
forky Fixed 1.9.20140610-3
bullseye Fixed 1.9.20140610-3
bookworm Fixed 1.9.20140610-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
miniupnp_projectminiupnpd1.4
miniupnp_projectminiupnpd1.5
miniupnp_projectminiupnpd1.7
miniupnp_projectminiupnpd1.8
miniupnp_projectminiupnpd1.9
miniupnp_projectminiupnpd2.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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