{"id":"CVE-2017-8420","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-8420","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:09:14.164Z","title":"Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS (Access Violation).","description":"SWFTools 2013-04-09-1007 on Windows has a \"Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at image00000000_00400000+0x0000000000003e71\" issue. This issue can be triggered by a malformed TTF file that is mishandled by font2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS (Access Violation).","published":"2017-07-05T20:29:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:26:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["swftools/swftools"],"epss":{"score":0.00876,"percentile":0.58801,"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 (0.88%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8420","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8420","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."}