CVE-2005-0906

Tincat vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

4.9%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in a player logging function in the Tincat network library 2.x before 2.0.28, as used in games such as Sacred and The Settlers: Heritage of Kings, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected vendor

Instance Four

Affected product

Tincat

CVSS vector

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

Published

2005-05-02

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 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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