THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-2091
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2012-2091

Flightgear vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
6.5%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Multiple buffer overflows in FlightGear 2.6 and earlier and SimGear 2.6 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) long string in a rotor tag of an aircraft xml model to the Rotor::getValueforFGSet function in src/FDM/YASim/Rotor.cpp or (2) a crafted UDP packet to the SGSocketUDP::read function in simgear/simgear/simgear/io/sg_socket_udp.cxx.
Affected vendor
Flightgear
Affected product
Flightgear
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2012-06-17

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 6.5% 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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  • Confirm whether Flightgear Flightgear is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-2091.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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