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CVE-2017-1000158

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 8.23% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-11-17 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
arbitrary code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2017-1000158
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
8.23%

Original NVD Description

CPython (aka Python) up to 2.7.13 is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the PyString_DecodeEscape function in stringobject.c, resulting in heap-based buffer overflow (and possible arbitrary code execution)