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Use After Free

CVE-2017-16732

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

A use-after-free issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess versions prior to 8.3. WebAccess allows an unauthenticated attacker to specify an arbitrary address.

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CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published