CVE-2017-2792 — An exploitable heap corruption vulnerability exists in the iBldDirInfo functiona

An exploitable heap corruption vulnerability exists in the iBldDirInfo 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 provide a malicious xls fi

01What is this vulnerability?

An exploitable heap corruption vulnerability exists in the iBldDirInfo 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 provide a malicious xls file to trigger this vulnerability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Antenna House	DMC HTMLFilter	as shipped with MarkLogic 8.0-6

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-09-07T16:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T20:31:28.249Z

09References

• talosintelligence.com — https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0284