THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-8146
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-8146

Itunes vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
24.5%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 55.1 does not properly track directionally isolated pieces of text, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.
Affected vendor
Apple
Affected product
Itunes
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2015-05-25

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 24.5% 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-2014-8146

  • Confirm whether Apple Itunes is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-8146.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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