MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-4549

Alpass vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
5.0%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Multiple buffer overflows in ALPass 2.7 English and 3.02 Korean allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an ALPass DB (APW) file containing (1) a long file-key or (2) a "Site Information and Folder entry" with a ciphertext_length value much larger than the plaintext_length value.
Affected vendor
Altools
Affected product
Alpass
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2007-08-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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-2007-4549

  • Confirm whether Altools Alpass is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-4549.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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