CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2015-7874

Kitty Portable vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
13.9%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in the chat server in KiTTY Portable 0.65.0.2p and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long nickname.
Affected vendor
Portapps
Affected product
Kitty Portable
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow
Published
2020-01-15

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 13.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-7874

  • Confirm whether Portapps Kitty Portable is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-7874.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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