CVE-2017-7083 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-7083?

CVE-2017-7083 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 23 Oct 2017. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. macOS before 10.13 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "CFNetwork Proxies" component. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7083?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Mac Os X, Apple Tvos, Apple Watchos.

How do I fix CVE-2017-7083?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-7083 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-7083 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7083 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cccc-7v4m-r37j.