CVE-2017-14202 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2017-14202

The shell implementation does not protect against buffer overruns resulting in unpredictable behavior.

7.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in the shell component of Zephyr allows a serial or telnet connected user to cause a crash, possibly with arbitrary code execution. This issue affects: Zephyr shell versions prior to 1.14.0 on all.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Zephyr

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Affected Software

shell

Vulnerable Versions:

prior to 1.14.0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 29th, 2019

Last Modified: September 17th, 2024

Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

T1055 Process Injection

Defense Evasion

T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Command and Control