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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-15662

In Flexense VX Search Enterprise v10.1.12, the Control Protocol suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.

EXPLOIT ✓HIGH 7.5EPSS 9.14%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 9.1%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.

Description

In Flexense VX Search Enterprise v10.1.12, the Control Protocol suffers from a denial of service vulnerability. The attack vector is a crafted SERVER_GET_INFO packet sent to control port 9123.

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
9.14% probability · 95th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 8 January 2018
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-358
Affected
flexense/vx search
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%21 September 2026: 7.52%22 September 2026: 9.14%27 October 2026: 9.14%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 7.5% on 21 September 2026 to 9.1% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-43451source ↗VX Search Enterprise 10.1.12 - Denial of Servicewindows · Ahmad Mahfouzdos8 January 2018yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.