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CVE-2019-17424

high

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow in the processPrivilage() function in IOS/process-general.c in nipper-ng 0.11.10 allows remote attackers (serving firewall configuration files) to achieve Remote Code Execution or Denial Of Service via a crafted file.

References

https://twitter.com/va_start

https://github.com/guywhataguy/CVE-2019-17424

https://code.google.com/archive/p/nipper-ng/source/default/source

https://blog.vastart.dev/2019/10/stack-overflow-cve-2019-17424.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155378/nipper-ng-0.11.10-Remote-Buffer-Overflow.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-22

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.13426