THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2004-1471
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2004-1471

Cvs vulnerability

CVSS
7.1
EPSS
7.7%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Format string vulnerability in wrapper.c in CVS 1.12.x through 1.12.8, and 1.11.x through 1.11.16 allows remote attackers with CVSROOT commit access to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a wrapper line.
Affected vendor
Cvs
Affected product
Cvs
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2004-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Cvs Cvs is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-1471.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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