A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the third-party product Gigasoft, v5 and prior, included in GE Communicator 3.15 and prior.

Published 8 y ago 2018-10-02 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.6

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.0%

percentile 63%

Public exploits

none known

A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the third-party product Gigasoft, v5 and prior, included in GE Communicator 3.15 and prior. A malicious HTML file that loads the ActiveX controls can trigger the vulnerability via unchecked function calls.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.99% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.6	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H`
NVD	2.0	6.8	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

GE GE Communicator

Classification

Weakness

CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-18-275-02 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/99580 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-7908
NVD: CVE-2017-7908

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