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TI-2017-07154 Aliases CVE-2017-9772GHSA-jggq-92ww-7r4w

Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions 4.04.0 and 4.04.1 allows…

Priority MEDIUM 48Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions 4.04.0 and 4.04.1 allows external code to be executed with raised privilege in binaries marked as setuid, by setting the CAML_CPLUGINS, CAML_NATIVE_CPLUGINS, or CAML_BYTE_CPLUGINS environment variable.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.03496 89th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:ocaml:ocaml:4.04.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*4.04.0VulnerableOCaml
cpe:2.3:a:ocaml:ocaml:4.04.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*4.04.1VulnerableOCaml
  • cpe:2.3:a:ocaml:ocaml:4.04.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 4.04.0 Vulnerable ·OCaml
  • cpe:2.3:a:ocaml:ocaml:4.04.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 4.04.1 Vulnerable ·OCaml

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-9772
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jggq-92ww-7r4w

References

Advisory 3

  • TI-2018-07003 The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard library in OCaml… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2015-07299 OCaml before 4.03.0 does not properly handle sign extensions, which allows remote… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2017-07160 OCaml compiler allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a similar… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2026-22643 In OCaml before 4.14.3 and 5.x before 5.4.1, a buffer over-read in Marshal… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.9
  • TI-2026-26640 Integer overflow in OCaml CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9

Sources

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