CVE-2017-5645

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2020-01-06. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2020-0263 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-fxph-q3j8-mv87 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 89%
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 89%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In Apache Log4j 2.x before 2.8.2, when using the TCP socket server or UDP socket server to receive serialized log events from another application, a specially crafted binary payload can be sent that, when deserialized, can execute arbitrary code.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
95
EG Risk 95/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation89% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
89%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
89% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

April 17, 2017

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Oct 30, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1417
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97702
Web page

oss-security - [CVE-2019-17571] Apache Log4j 1.2 deserialization of untrusted data in SocketServer

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/19/2

Patch Availability(18)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhathawtio-osgi2021-08-11redhat
redhatlog4j2019-06-18redhat
redhatlog4j-0:1.2.14-19.patch_01.ep5.el62017-12-07redhat
redhatpatch2017-12-07redhat
redhatpatch2017-11-16redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-javadocs-0:7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el62017-09-26redhat
redhateap7-jboss-ec2-eap-0:7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el72017-09-26redhat
redhatpatch2017-09-26redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-javadocs-0:7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el72017-09-26redhat
redhatpatch2017-09-05redhat
redhatpicketlink-federation-0:2.5.4-17.SP15_redhat_1.1.ep6.el52017-09-05redhat
redhatpicketlink-federation-0:2.5.4-17.SP15_redhat_1.1.ep6.el72017-09-05redhat
redhatjboss-ec2-eap-0:7.5.17-1.Final_redhat_4.ep6.el62017-09-05redhat
redhatpicketlink-federation-0:2.5.4-17.SP15_redhat_1.1.ep6.el62017-09-05redhat
redhatlog4j-0:1.2.17-16.el7_42017-08-07redhat
redhattomcat-native-0:1.2.8-10.redhat_10.ep7.el72017-07-25redhat
redhatrh-java-common-log4j-0:1.2.17-15.15.el72017-06-08redhat
mavenorg.apache.logging.log4j:log4j @ 2.8.2 (fixes >= 2.0, < 2.8.2)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(6 across 5 ecosystems)
Maven(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j2.0 ... 2.8.1 (17 versions)
  • 2.0 up to 2.8.2: fixed in 2.8.2
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org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core2.0 ... 2.8.1 (17 versions)
  • 2.0 up to 2.8.2: fixed in 2.8.2
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j2—
  • every version up to 2.7-2: fixed in 2.7-2
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j2—
  • every version up to 2.7-2: fixed in 2.7-2
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j2—
  • every version up to 2.7-2: fixed in 2.7-2
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j2—
  • every version up to 2.7-2: fixed in 2.7-2
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(4)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 58× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 95 of 115 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 5 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 20 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 00:12 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 00:12 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 00:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fxph-q3j8-mv87 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-01 08:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fxph-q3j8-mv87 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-01 08:44 UTCEG score recompute
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  14. 2026-10-28 23:01 UTCVendor advisory
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  17. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
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  19. 2026-10-26 22:25 UTCVendor advisory
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  22. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-23 18:30 UTCVendor advisory
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  4. 2026-10-22 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
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  6. 2026-10-21 17:53 UTCVendor advisory
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  9. 2026-10-20 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
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  11. 2026-10-19 17:11 UTCVendor advisory
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  22. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
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  24. 2026-10-14 07:36 UTCVendor advisory
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  31. 2026-10-08 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
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  55. 2026-07-30 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
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  57. 2026-07-25 20:01 UTCOSV refresh
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  60. 2026-07-22 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC), as are 1 Nuclei detection template, 1 GitHub checker repository. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Nucleinetwork/cves/2017/CVE-2017-5645.yaml
    Published May 24, 2023

    Apache Log4j Server - Deserialization Command Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub checkerHynekPetrak/log4shell-finder
    Published Dec 14, 2021

    Fastest filesystem scanner for log4shell (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046) and other vulnerable (CVE-2017-5645, CVE-2019-17571, CVE-2022-23305, CVE-2022-23307 ... ) instances of log4j library. Excellent performance and low memory footprint.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCpimps/CVE-2017-5645
    Published Aug 4, 2017

    CVE-2017-5645 - Apache Log4j RCE due Insecure Deserialization

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2017-5645?
CVE-2017-5645 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 17, 2017. In Apache Log4j 2.x before 2.8.2, when using the TCP socket server or UDP socket server to receive serialized log events from another application, a specially crafted binary payload can be sent that, when deserialized, can execute arbitrary code.
When was CVE-2017-5645 made public?
CVE-2017-5645 was made public on April 2, 2017: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Apache Software Foundation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on April 17, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-5645 actively exploited?
CVE-2017-5645 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 89% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-5645?
CVE-2017-5645 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2017-5645?
A fix for CVE-2017-5645 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2017-5645 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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