THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-4024
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-4024

Festalon vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.0%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The FESTAHES_Load function in pce/hes.c in Festalon 0.5.0 through 0.5.5 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative LoadAddr value in a HES file, which is used as an offset in a memcpy operation and leads to a buffer underflow.
Affected vendor
Festalon
Affected product
Festalon
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-08-09

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 5.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-4024

  • Confirm whether Festalon Festalon is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-4024.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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