CVE-2004-2167

Latex2rtf vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

14.3%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Multiple buffer overflows in LaTeX2rtf 1.9.15, and possibly other versions, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) the expandmacro function, and possibly (2) Environments and (3) TranslateCommand.

Affected vendor

Latex2rtf

Affected product

Latex2rtf

CVSS vector

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

Published

2004-12-31

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 14.3% 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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