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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-12963

There is an illegal address access in Sass::Eval::operator() in eval.cpp of LibSass 3.4.5, leading to a remote denial of service attack.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.23%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.23%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

There is an illegal address access in Sass::Eval::operator() in eval.cpp of LibSass 3.4.5, leading to a remote denial of service attack. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-11555 but remains exploitable after the vendor's CVE-2017-11555 fix (available from GitHub after 2017-07-24).

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.23% probability · 67th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
libsass/libsass
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.