THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-1417
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-1417

Snort vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
4.4%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Snort 2.9.7.0-WIN32 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse tcapi.dll that is located in the same folder on a remote file share as a pcap file that is being processed.
Affected vendor
Snort
Affected product
Snort
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2017-01-23

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-1417.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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