7.5high

CVE-2002-16521 exploit

Buffer overflow in cgicso.c for cgiemail 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary co…

Published 23 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
8.0%
percentile 95%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in cgicso.c for cgiemail 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long query parameter.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

7.98% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-21998 CGIEmail 1.6 - Remote Buffer Overflow · remote · 2001-09-11

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.07.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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