CVE-2017-20005

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2021-06-06

Last modified

2025-12-05

Weaknesses

CWE-120, CWE-190

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Nginx (F5)

References

• http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES
• https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/0206ebe76f748bb39d9de4dd4b3fce777fdfdccf
• https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/b900cc28fcbb4cf5a32ab62f80b59292e1c85b4b
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00009.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0006/
• https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1368