CVE-2016-10079

Saplpd vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

6.5%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

SAPlpd through 7400.3.11.33 in SAP GUI 7.40 on Windows has a Denial of Service vulnerability (service crash) with a long string to TCP port 515.

Affected vendor

Sap

Affected product

Saplpd

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2017-02-01

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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