Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14952

RCE

Title: Icu-Project International Components For Unicode RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14952.

CWE Category CWE-415

Published Date Oct 16, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.94%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14952: Double free in i18n/zonemeta.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 59.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string, aka a "redundant UVector entry clean up function call" issue.

Impacted Vendors

icu-project 1

unicode 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40324/trunk/icu4c/source/i18n/zonemeta.cpp http://www.sourcebrella.com/blog/double-free-vulnerability-international-components-unicode-icu/ https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40324/trunk/icu4c/source/i18n/zonemeta.cpp http://www.sourcebrella.com/blog/double-free-vulnerability-international-components-unicode-icu/ https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

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