CVE-2017-13815

Publication date 13 November 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the third-party "file" product. Versions before 5.31 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
file	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

tyhicks

It isn't clear if this affects the upstream file or not. Adding for now until we get more information.

mdeslaur

no details as of 2018-03-27, may be apple-specific, marking as not-affected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H