HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2004-0946

Nfs Utils vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
11.3%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
rquotad in nfs-utils (rquota_server.c) before 1.0.6-r6 on 64-bit architectures does not properly perform an integer conversion, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow and allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted NFS request.
Affected vendor
Nfs
Affected product
Nfs Utils
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2005-01-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 11.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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