Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-9772

Title: Ocaml

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-9772.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 23, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-9772: Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions 4.04.0 and 4.04.1 allows external code to be executed with raised privilege in binaries marked as setuid, by setting the CAML_CPLUGINS, CAML_NATIVE_CPLUGINS, or CAML_BYTE_CPLUGINS environment variable.

Impacted Vendors

inria 1

ocaml 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99277 https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7557 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-07 https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2017-06/msg00094.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99277 https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7557 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-07 https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2017-06/msg00094.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

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns