CVE-2017-20005
CVSS v3
9.8
CRITICAL
EPSS Score
3.3 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Vendor advisories
- CVE-2017-20005 Red Hat Product Security
nginx: buffer overflow in ngx_gmtime() triggered by 5 digit years
Description
NGINX before 1.13.6 has a buffer overflow for years that exceed four digits, as demonstrated by a file with a modification date in 1969 that causes an integer overflow (or a false modification date far in the future), when encountered by the autoindex module.
Technical details
- Published
- 2021-06-06
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