CVE-2017-2808

Publication date 5 September 2017

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the account parsing component of the Ledger-CLI 3.1.1. A specially crafted ledger file can cause a use-after-free vulnerability resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can convince a user to load a journal file to trigger this vulnerability.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ledger	26.04 LTS resolute	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	25.10 questing	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	21.10 impish	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	21.04 hirsute	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	20.10 groovy	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	19.04 disco	Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

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

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

CVE-2017-2808

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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