{"id":"CVE-2017-10981","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-10981","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:24:56.091Z","title":"An FR-GV-204 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows \"DHCP - Memory leak in fr_dhcp_decode()\" and a denial of service.","description":"An FR-GV-204 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows \"DHCP - Memory leak in fr_dhcp_decode()\" and a denial of service.","published":"2017-07-17T17:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:01:02.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-772"],"affected":["freeradius/freeradius"],"epss":{"score":0.03368,"percentile":0.88681,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.37%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99898","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99898","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10981","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}