THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-4337
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-4337

Gzip vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.6%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in the make_table function in the LHZ component in gzip 1.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted decoding table in a GZIP archive.
Affected vendor
Gzip
Affected product
Gzip
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-09-19

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 5.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Gzip Gzip is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-4337.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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