CVE-2017-7523
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 2.7%
exploitation probability
2.7%top 15% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Cygwin versions 1.7.2 up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to buffer overflow vulnerability in wcsxfrm/wcsxfrm_l functions resulting into denial-of-service by crashing the process or potential hijack of the process running with administrative privileges triggered by specially crafted input string.
Affected products
Red Hat, Inc. · cygwin