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
References (38)
and 18 more references
67
/ 100
high-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
15/34 · Moderate
Exposure
28/34 · Critical