Buffer Overflow in Openssl (CVE-2017-3735)
Summary
Vulnerability in Openssl (CVE-2017-3735). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
While parsing an IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate, it is possible to do a one-byte overread. This would result in an incorrect text display of the certificate. This bug has been present since 2006 and is present in all versions of OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0g.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-3735 has been found in Openssl.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Openssl CVE-2017-3735" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2017-3735 (Openssl) — CWE-119 / CVSS v3 5.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-119) exists in Openssl.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Openssl.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Openssl' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Openssl' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Opensslを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2017-3735 openssl Fixed in: 1.0.2m-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2017-3735 openssl Fixed in: 1.1.0g-1
References
- advisory oracle.com
- advisory oracle.com
- advisory oracle.com
- advisory oracle.com
- advisory securityfocus.com
- advisory securitytracker.com
- advisory access.redhat.com
- advisory access.redhat.com
- advisory security.FreeBSD.org
- advisory security.gentoo.org
- advisory debian.org
- advisory debian.org
- advisory oracle.com
- advisory oracle.com
- advisory oracle.com
- patch github.com
- patch openssl.org
- report security.netapp.com
- report security.netapp.com
- report openssl.org
- report tenable.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web support.apple.com
- web usn.ubuntu.com
- web oracle.com
- web tenable.com