THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-4278
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-4278

Arcsde vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in the giomgr process in ESRI ArcSDE service 9.2, as used with ArcGIS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number that requires more than 8 bytes to represent in ASCII, which triggers the overflow in an sprintf function call.
Affected vendor
Esri
Affected product
Arcsde
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2007-08-15

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 4.7% 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-2007-4278

  • Confirm whether Esri Arcsde is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-4278.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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