VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-7868

International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_moveIndex32* function.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.45%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.45%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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: 4.45% probability · 91th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-787
Affected: icu-project/international components for unicode · debian/debian linux
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 4.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/39671Patch
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3830Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97674Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=437Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-03Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/39671Patch
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3830Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97674Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=437Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-03Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

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