What is CVE-2017-5830?

CVE-2017-5830 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-03-03.

How severe is CVE-2017-5830?

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

Deserialization in Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver

CVE-2017-5830

Revive Adserver before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via serialized data in the cookies related to the delivery scripts.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

Published 2017-03-03 · 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: 0.033 (88.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-28.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/3 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2017-001/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95875 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5830?: CVE-2017-5830 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-03-03.
How severe is CVE-2017-5830?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.