THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-18189
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-18189

Sound Exchange vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.2%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
In the startread function in xa.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) through 14.4.2, a corrupt header specifying zero channels triggers an infinite loop with a resultant NULL pointer dereference, which may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service.
Affected vendor
Sound Exchange Project
Affected product
Sound Exchange
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2018-02-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-18189

  • Confirm whether Sound Exchange Project Sound Exchange is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-18189.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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