{"id":"CVE-2017-9265","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-9265","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:15:59.526Z","title":"In Open vSwitch (OvS) v2.7.0, there is a buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message sent from the controller in `lib/ofp-util.c` in the function `ofputil_pull_ofp15_group_mod`.","description":"In Open vSwitch (OvS) v2.7.0, there is a buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message sent from the controller in `lib/ofp-util.c` in the function `ofputil_pull_ofp15_group_mod`.","published":"2017-05-29T04:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:27:47.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["openvswitch/openvswitch"],"epss":{"score":0.02809,"percentile":0.86438,"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":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.81%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332965.html","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332965.html","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9265","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."}