CVE-2007-2602

Whatsup Gold vulnerability

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

3.5%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in MIBEXTRA.EXE in Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long MIB filename argument. NOTE: If there is not a common scenario under which MIBEXTRA.EXE is called with attacker-controlled command line arguments, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Affected vendor

Progress

Affected product

Whatsup Gold

CVSS vector

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

Published

2007-05-11

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Progress Whatsup Gold is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-2602.
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