CVE-2008-1403

Administrator vulnerability

CVSS

6.8

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in the TFTP server in BootManage TFTPD 1.99 and earlier in BootManage Administrator 7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a request with a long filename.

Affected vendor

Bootmanage

Affected product

Administrator

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

2008-03-20

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 3.6% 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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