What is CVE-2017-11674?

CVE-2017-11674 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-11674?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner

CVE-2017-11674

Reporter.exe in Acunetix 8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed PRE file, related to a "Read Access Violation starting at reporter!madTraceProcess."

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-07-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 77.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner — versions 8

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

code610.blogspot.com/2017/07/readwrite-access-violation-acunetix.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11674?: CVE-2017-11674 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-11674?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.