THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-2214
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-2214

Snmpc vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
8.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Network Manager in Castle Rock Computing SNMPc 7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long community string in an SNMP TRAP packet.
Affected vendor
Castle Rock
Affected product
Snmpc
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2008-05-14

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 confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-2214

  • Confirm whether Castle Rock Snmpc is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-2214.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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