CVE-2007-5824

Media Server vulnerability

CVSS

7.1

EPSS

5.6%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and daemon crash) via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with (1) an empty Authorization header line, which triggers a crash in the ws_decodepassword function; or (2) a header line without a ':' character, which triggers a crash in the ws_getheaders function.

Affected vendor

Firefly

Affected product

Media Server

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2007-11-05

Risk analysis

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

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-5824

Confirm whether Firefly Media Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-5824.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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