HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-3693

Enterprise Linux Desktop vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.0%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Use-after-free vulnerability in the socket manager of Impress Remote in LibreOffice 4.x before 4.2.7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted request to TCP port 1599.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Enterprise Linux Desktop
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2014-11-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low 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 5.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-3693.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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