HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2010-1938

Freebsd vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
22.0%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Off-by-one error in the __opiereadrec function in readrec.c in libopie in OPIE 2.4.1-test1 and earlier, as used on FreeBSD 6.4 through 8.1-PRERELEASE and other platforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long username, as demonstrated by a long USER command to the FreeBSD 8.0 ftpd.
Affected vendor
Freebsd
Affected product
Freebsd
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2010-05-28

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 22.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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