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CVE-2017-20005

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

NGINX before 1.13.6 has a buffer overflow for years that exceed four digits, as demonstrated by a file with a modification date in 1969 that causes an integer overflow (or a false modification date far in the future), when encountered by the autoindex module.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published6/6/2021

Last Modified12/5/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxf5:nginx

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-190CWE-120CWE-190

References

http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/0206ebe76f748bb39d9de4dd4b3fce777fdfdccf(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/b900cc28fcbb4cf5a32ab62f80b59292e1c85b4b(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00009.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0006/(cve@mitre.org)

https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1368(cve@mitre.org)

http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/0206ebe76f748bb39d9de4dd4b3fce777fdfdccf(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/b900cc28fcbb4cf5a32ab62f80b59292e1c85b4b(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00009.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0006/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1368(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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