What is CVE-2017-10985?

CVE-2017-10985 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freeradius, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2017-10985?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Freeradius

CVE-2017-10985

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes" and a denial of service.

Published 2017-07-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.033 (87.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.033 · change: +0.002

Affected products

Freeradius — versions 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930 (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2389 (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99968 (vdb-entry)
freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-10985?: CVE-2017-10985 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freeradius, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2017-10985?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.