CVE-2017-8366: Ettercap Project Ettercap

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The strescape function in ec_strings.c in Ettercap 0.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted filter that is mishandled by etterfilter.

Affected products

Published 2017-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.