What is CVE-2017-2799?

CVE-2017-2799 is a high-severity vulnerability in Antenna House Dmc Htmlfilter, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.3/10. Published 2017-05-24.

How severe is CVE-2017-2799?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.3 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Antenna House Dmc Htmlfilter

CVE-2017-2799

An exploitable heap corruption vulnerability exists in the AddSst functionality of Antenna House DMC HTMLFilter as used by MarkLogic 8.0-6. A specially crafted XLS file can cause a heap corruption resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can send or provide a malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-05-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.3 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Antenna House Dmc Htmlfilter — versions as shipped with MarkLogic 8.0-6
Marklogic — versions 8.0-6

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0292 (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-2799?: CVE-2017-2799 is a high-severity vulnerability in Antenna House Dmc Htmlfilter, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.3/10. Published 2017-05-24.
How severe is CVE-2017-2799?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.3 out of 10.