Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-1000122

Title: Webkitgtk Webkitgtk\+ Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-1000122.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Nov 01, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.3 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-1000122: The UNIX IPC layer in WebKit, including WebKitGTK+ prior to 2.16.3, does not properly validate certain message metadata, allowing a compromised secondary process to cause a denial of service (release assertion) of the UI process. This vulnerability does not affect Apple products.

Impacted Vendors

webkitgtk 1

webkit 1

Reference Links

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/217206 https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2017-0007.html http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/217206

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns