Critical
Security advisory
In cryptctl before version 2.0 a malicious server could send RPC requests that could overwrite files outside of the cryptctl key database.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-9270
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In cryptctl before version 2.0 a malicious server could send RPC requests that could overwrite files outside of the cryptctl key database.
osv:CVE-2017-9270
Complete source record
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