CVE-2017-7555: Augeas

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.

Affected products

• Augeas Augeas: up to and including 1.8.0

Published 2017-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.