High severity · published Sep 13, 2018
CVE-2018-16743
An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In contrib/next-login/login.c, the command-line parameter username is passed unsanitized to strcpy(), which can cause a stack-based buffer overflow.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MG
Mgetty · Mgetty Project
before 1.2.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16743
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16743
Exploit
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty
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