Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published May 24, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-2800
CVE-2017-2800
Description
A specially crafted x509 certificate can cause a single out of bounds byte overwrite in wolfSSL through 3.10.2 resulting in potential certificate validation vulnerabilities, denial of service and possible remote code execution. In order to trigger this vulnerability, the attacker needs to supply a malicious x509 certificate to either a server or a client application using this library.
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References
2- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984/nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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