CVE-2017-1000494
Uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in NameValueParserEndElt (upnpreplyparse.c) in miniupnpd < 2.0 allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault and Memory Corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in NameValueParserEndElt (upnpreplyparse.c) in miniupnpd < 2.0 allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault and Memory Corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.47% probability · 40th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- miniupnp project/miniupnpd
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/commit/7aeb624b44f86d335841242ff427433190e7168aPatch
- https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/issues/268Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00045.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3562-1/
- https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/commit/7aeb624b44f86d335841242ff427433190e7168aPatch
- https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/issues/268Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00045.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3562-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.