CVE-2017-12618: Apache Portable Runtime Utility

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APR-util) 1.6.0 and prior fail to validate the integrity of SDBM database files used by apr_sdbm*() functions, resulting in a possible out of bound read access. A local user with write access to the database can make a program or process using these functions crash, and cause a denial of service.

Affected products

• Apache Portable Runtime Utility: version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; version 0.9.5 only; version 0.9.6 only; …

Published 2017-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.