{"id":"CVE-2017-11673","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-11673","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:18:29.259Z","title":"Reporter.exe in Acunetix 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed PRE file, related to a \"User Mode Write AV starting at reporter!madTraceProcess.\"","description":"Reporter.exe in Acunetix 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed PRE file, related to a \"User Mode Write AV starting at reporter!madTraceProcess.\"","published":"2017-07-27T06:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:02:11.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["acunetix/web vulnerability scanner"],"epss":{"score":0.02704,"percentile":0.85873,"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 (2.70%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://code610.blogspot.com/2017/07/readwrite-access-violation-acunetix.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://code610.blogspot.com/2017/07/readwrite-access-violation-acunetix.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11673","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."}