CVE-2017-18047

Nfsaxe vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

19.7%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Buffer Overflow in the FTP client in LabF nfsAxe 3.7 allows remote FTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long reply.

Affected vendor

Labf

Affected product

Nfsaxe

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-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2018-01-22

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 19.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-18047.
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