Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-12588

Title: Rsyslog

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-12588.

CWE Category CWE-134

Published Date Aug 06, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-12588: The zmq3 input and output modules in rsyslog before 8.28.0 interpreted description fields as format strings, possibly allowing a format string attack with unspecified impact.

Impacted Vendors

rsyslog 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/blob/master/ChangeLog https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/062d0c671a29f7c6f7dff4a2f1f35df375bbb30b https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1565 https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/blob/master/ChangeLog https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/062d0c671a29f7c6f7dff4a2f1f35df375bbb30b https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1565 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0009/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

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:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns