{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7522 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2017-7522 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenVPN, published on 27 Jun 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-7522 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-7522 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenVPN, published on 27 Jun 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7522 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: OpenVPN. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7522/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7522/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-7522","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7522/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-7522","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7522","GHSA-c6pr-p5hf-w49p"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"OpenVPN server","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An authenticated remote attacker can cause a denial of service in OpenVPN by sending a certificate containing an embedded NULL character.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"openvpn","vendor":"openvpn"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"},{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to denial-of-service by authenticated remote attacker via sending a certificate with an embedded NULL character.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Null dereference in OpenVPN","id":"CVE-2017-7522","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in cygwin","id":"CVE-2017-7523"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in OpenVPN","id":"CVE-2017-7521"},"products":["OpenVPN"],"published":"2017-06-27","related":[{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Memory corruption in OpenVPN","id":"CVE-2025-12106","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-12-01"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Information disclosure in OpenVPN","id":"CVE-2024-5594","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-01-06"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-7544","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-03-16"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2006-1629","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2006-04-06"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in OpenVPN","id":"CVE-2024-4877","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-04-03"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Code injection in OpenVPN-GUI","id":"CVE-2021-3606","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-07-02"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Use after free in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-9336","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-05-01"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["OpenVPN Technologies, Inc"]},"summary":"An authenticated remote attacker can cause a denial of service in OpenVPN by sending a certificate containing an embedded NULL character.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7522/"}