Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-5522

Title: Osgeo Mapserver RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-5522.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 15, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-5522: Stack-based buffer overflow in MapServer before 6.0.6, 6.2.x before 6.2.4, 6.4.x before 6.4.5, and 7.0.x before 7.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors involving WFS get feature requests.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_minnesota 1

osgeo 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3766 http://www.mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-6-0-6.html#changelog-6-0-6 http://www.mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-6-2-4.html#changelog-6-2-4 http://www.mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-6-4.html#changelog-6-4-5 http://www.mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-7-0.html#changelog-7-0-4 https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/commit/e52a436c0e1c5e9f7ef13428dba83194a800f4df https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2017-January/015007.html http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3766 http://www.mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-6-0-6.html#changelog-6-0-6 http://www.mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-6-2-4.html#changelog-6-2-4 http://www.mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-6-4.html#changelog-6-4-5 http://www.mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-7-0.html#changelog-7-0-4 https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/commit/e52a436c0e1c5e9f7ef13428dba83194a800f4df https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2017-January/015007.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