CVE detail

CVE-2017-18922 — CVE-2017-18922

Published 2020-06-30 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor libvncserver_project · Product libvncserver · Source nvd

CRITICAL

severity

CVSS-derived band

9.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0226

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

81.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

It was discovered that websockets.c in LibVNCServer prior to 0.9.12 did not properly decode certain WebSocket frames. A malicious attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted WebSocket frames to a server, causing a heap-based buffer overflow.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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