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CVE-2017-7397in critical feed1 exploit

BackBox Linux 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ksoftirqd CPU consumption) via a flood of packets with Martian sour…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
11.1%
percentile 96%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

BackBox Linux 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ksoftirqd CPU consumption) via a flood of packets with Martian source IP addresses (as defined in RFC 1812 section 5.3.7). This product enables net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians by default. NOTE: the vendor reports "It has been proved that this vulnerability has no foundation and it is totally fake and based on false assumptions.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

11.07% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-41781 BackBox OS - Denial of Service · dos · 2017-04-02

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

  • exploitalert.com /view-details.html?id=26361 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • backbox.org /portal/blog/false-cve-backbox-46-unmasked · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • cxsecurity.com /issue/WLB-2017040001 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • forum.backbox.org /security-advisories/waiting-verification-backbox-os-denial-of-service/msg10218 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/41781/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred

Sources

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