CVE-2003-0081

Ethereal vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

5.8%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Format string vulnerability in packet-socks.c of the SOCKS dissector for Ethereal 0.8.7 through 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via SOCKS packets containing format string specifiers.

Affected vendor

Ethereal Group

Affected product

Ethereal

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2003-03-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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