What is CVE-2017-12786?

CVE-2017-12786 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Noviflow Noviware, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-08-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-12786?

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

Buffer overflow in Noviflow Noviware

CVE-2017-12786

Network interfaces of the cliengine and noviengine services, included in the NoviWare software distribution through NW400.2.6 and deployed on NoviSwitch devices, can be inadvertently exposed if an operator attempts to modify ACLs, because of a bug when ACL modifications are applied. This could be leveraged by remote, unauthenticated attackers to gain resultant privileged (root) code execution on the switch, because there is a stack-based buffer overflow during unserialization of packet data.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.253 (97.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Noviflow Noviware
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12786?: CVE-2017-12786 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Noviflow Noviware, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-12786?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.