CVE-2014-3478

high-risk
Published 2014-07-09

Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.

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25.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 75% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 6.5/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

67
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high-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 15/34 · Moderate
Exposure 28/34 · Critical