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High · 8.3 Public exploit CVE-2017-2793 EUVD-2017-11936GHSA-jx7r-r8x8-fhcp

An exploitable heap corruption vulnerability exists in the UnCompressUnicode functionality of Antenna House DMC HTMLFilter used by MarkLogi…

Published May 23, 2017 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by talos

Description

An exploitable heap corruption vulnerability exists in the UnCompressUnicode functionality of Antenna House DMC HTMLFilter used by MarkLogic 8.0-6. A specially crafted xls file can cause a heap corruption resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can send/provide malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Antenna House DMC HTMLFilter as shipped with MarkLogic 8.0-6 —

Public exploits

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