CVE-2017-6371

HIGH 7.5CVE-2017-6371 · Published 27/02/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-6371 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting bbs (synchro).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.7%, higher than 91.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bbs synchro	`= 3.16c`	No fix yet

Synchronet BBS 3.16c for Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a long string in the HTTP Referer header.

Running one of these products? Scan your site to see whether it exposes a vulnerable version.