CVE-2007-1568

Newsreactor vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

7.8%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in DaanSystems NewsReactor 20070220.21 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a yEnc (yEncode) encoded article with a long filename.

Affected vendor

Daansystems

Affected product

Newsreactor

CVSS vector

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

Published

2007-03-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.8% 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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