CVE-2017-18594

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

nse_libssh2.cc in Nmap 7.70 is subject to a denial of service condition due to a double free when an SSH connection fails, as demonstrated by a leading \n character to ssh-brute.nse or ssh-auth-methods.nse.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-415

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 29, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

Related CVEs from 2017

CVE-2017-185957.8An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.14.11. A double free may be caused by the function allocate_trace_buffer in the file ke CVE-2017-185968.8The elementor plugin before 1.8.0 for WordPress has incorrect access control for internal functions.CVE-2017-185978.8The jtrt-responsive-tables plugin before 4.1.2 for WordPress has SQL Injection via the admin/class-jtrt-responsive-tables-admin.php tableId CVE-2017-185986.1The Qards plugin through 2017-10-11 for WordPress has XSS via a remote document specified in the url parameter to html2canvasproxy.php.CVE-2017-185996.1The Pinfinity theme before 2.0 for WordPress has XSS via the s parameter.CVE-2017-186005.4The formcraft3 plugin before 3.4 for WordPress has stored XSS via the "New Form > Heading > Heading Text" field.CVE-2017-186015.4The examapp plugin 1.0 for WordPress has XSS via exam input text fields.CVE-2017-186028.8The examapp plugin 1.0 for WordPress has SQL injection via the wp-admin/admin.php?page=examapp_UserResult id parameter.CVE-2017-186036.1The postman-smtp plugin through 2017-10-04 for WordPress has XSS via the wp-admin/tools.php?page=postman_email_log page parameter.CVE-2017-186047.5The sitebuilder-dynamic-components plugin through 1.0 for WordPress has PHP object injection via an AJAX request.CVE-2017-186059.8The gravitate-qa-tracker plugin through 1.2.1 for WordPress has PHP Object Injection.CVE-2017-186066.1The avada theme before 5.1.5 for WordPress has stored XSS.