THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2009-1251
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2009-1251

Unix vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
6.4%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Heap-based buffer overflow in the cache manager in the client in OpenAFS 1.0 through 1.4.8 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.58 on Unix platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an RX response containing more data than specified in a request, related to use of XDR arrays.
Affected vendor
Unix
Affected product
Unix
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
2009-04-09

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 6.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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