CVE-2009-2403

Scmpx vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

7.0%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in SCMPX 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string in a .m3u playlist file.

Affected vendor

Shinjichiba

Affected product

Scmpx

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

Published

2009-07-09

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

Its EPSS score of 7.0% 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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