CVE-2017-2477

Publication date 2 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. The issue involves the "libxslt" component. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libxslt	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

tyhicks

As of 2018-03-27, there's not enough public information to triage this issue

mdeslaur

marking as not-affected since there is no information

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H