CVE-2017-2800

A specially crafted x509 certificate can cause a single out of bounds byte overwrite in wolfSSL through 3.10.2 resulting in potential certificate validation vulnerabilities, denial of service and possible remote code execution. In order to trigger this vulnerability, the attacker needs to supply a malicious x509 certificate to either a server or a client application using this library.

• CWE-295

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0293Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41984/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Published

May 24, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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