What is CVE-2017-1000437?

CVE-2017-1000437 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Creolabs Gravity, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-01-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-1000437?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Creolabs Gravity

CVE-2017-1000437

Creolabs Gravity 1.0 contains a stack based buffer overflow in the operator_string_add function, resulting in remote code execution.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2018-01-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.038 (89.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.038 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Creolabs Gravity — versions 1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

github.com/marcobambini/gravity/issues/186 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-1000437?: CVE-2017-1000437 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Creolabs Gravity, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-01-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-1000437?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.