CVE-2017-11673

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2017-11673 · Published 27/07/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-11673 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting web vulnerability scanner (acunetix).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.7%, higher than 86.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
web vulnerability scanner acunetix	`= 8`	No fix yet

Description

Reporter.exe in Acunetix 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed PRE file, related to a "User Mode Write AV starting at reporter!madTraceProcess."

References

code610.blogspot.com/2017/07/readwrite-access-violation-acunetix.html · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

web vulnerability scanner

acunetix

= 8

No fix yet

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