CVE-2017-7467: Minicom Project Minicom

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences. A malicious terminal device could potentially use this flaw to crash minicom, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the minicom process.

Affected products

• Minicom Project Minicom: before 2.7.1 (fixed in 2.7.1)

Published 2018-07-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.