CVE-2017-5496

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—Exploit

Severity9.8Critical · CVSS 3.0

Exploitation probability5.77 %higher than 93% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

Sawmill Enterprise 8.7.9 allows remote attackers to gain login access by leveraging knowledge of a password hash.

CVSS

Base score: 9.8
Version: 3.0
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 5.77 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 93
Score date: 11/3/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Sawmill Enterprise 8.7.9 - Authentication Bypass (2/18/2017)

Affected technologies (1)

Sawmill — Sawmill

CWEs

CWE-200

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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