THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2013-5447
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2013-5447

Forms Viewer vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
34.0%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in IBM Forms Viewer 4.x before 4.0.0.3 and 8.x before 8.0.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XFDL form with a long fontname value.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Forms Viewer
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2013-12-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 34.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-5447

  • Confirm whether Ibm Forms Viewer is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-5447.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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