Vulnerability CVE-2017-20005
Published: 2021-06-06   Modified: 2021-06-07

Description:
NGINX before 1.13.6 has a buffer overflow for years that exceed four digits, as demonstrated by a file with a modification date in 1969 that causes an integer overflow (or a false modification date far in the future), when encountered by the autoindex module.

Type:

CWE-190

 (Integer Overflow or Wraparound)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Nginx -> Nginx 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/b900cc28fcbb4cf5a32ab62f80b59292e1c85b4b
https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1368
https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/0206ebe76f748bb39d9de4dd4b3fce777fdfdccf
http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00009.html
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