{"id":"CVE-2017-12618","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-12618","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:05:28.492Z","title":"A local user with write access to the database can make a program or process using these functions crash, and cause a denial of service.","description":"Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APR-util) 1.6.0 and prior fail to validate the integrity of SDBM database files used by apr_sdbm*() functions, resulting in a possible out of bound read access. A local user with write access to the database can make a program or process using these functions crash, and cause a denial of service.","published":"2017-10-24T01:29:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:03:39.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@apache.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":4.7,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["apache/portable runtime utility"],"epss":{"score":0.00596,"percentile":0.48292,"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":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.60%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/apr-dev/201710.mbox/%3CCACsi252POs4toeJJciwg09_eu2cO3XFg%3DUqsPjXsfjDoeC3-UQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E","tags":["Mailing List","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101558","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004","source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00006.html","source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/apr-dev/201710.mbox/%3CCACsi252POs4toeJJciwg09_eu2cO3XFg%3DUqsPjXsfjDoeC3-UQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E","tags":["Mailing List","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101558","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00006.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12618","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."}