{"id":"USN-3400-1","summary":"augeas vulnerability","details":"It was discovered that Augeas incorrectly handled certain strings.\nAn attacker could use this issue to cause Augeas to crash, leading\nto a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:38:06.915287Z","published":"2017-08-21T15:50:34Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7555"],"upstream":["CVE-2017-7555","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7555"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3400-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7555"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"augeas","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/augeas@1.2.0-0ubuntu1.3?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.2.0-0ubuntu1.3"}]}],"versions":["1.1.0-0ubuntu2","1.1.0-0ubuntu3","1.1.0-0ubuntu4","1.2.0-0ubuntu1","1.2.0-0ubuntu1.1","1.2.0-0ubuntu1.2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"augeas-lenses","binary_version":"1.2.0-0ubuntu1.3"},{"binary_name":"augeas-tools","binary_version":"1.2.0-0ubuntu1.3"},{"binary_name":"libaugeas0","binary_version":"1.2.0-0ubuntu1.3"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2017-7555","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3400-1.json"}},{"package":{"name":"augeas","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/augeas@1.4.0-0ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.4.0-0ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["1.3.0-0ubuntu1","1.3.0-0ubuntu2","1.4.0-0ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"augeas-lenses","binary_version":"1.4.0-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"augeas-tools","binary_version":"1.4.0-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"libaugeas0","binary_version":"1.4.0-0ubuntu1.1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3400-1.json","cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2017-7555","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}]}}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}