THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-8241
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2014-8241

Tigervnc vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging failure to check a malloc return value, a similar issue to CVE-2014-6052.
Affected vendor
Tigervnc
Affected product
Tigervnc
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2016-12-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-8241

  • Confirm whether Tigervnc Tigervnc is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-8241.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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