CVE-2008-3286

Swat 4 vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

8.9%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

SWAT 4 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a (1) VERIFYCONTENT or (2) GAMECONFIG command sent to the server before user session initialization, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference; or (3) a GAMESPYRESPONSE command followed by a long RS string.

Affected vendor

Sierra

Affected product

Swat 4

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2008-07-24

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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