7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.018 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.2%
A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team
identified a flaw in the Hashcash utility that an attacker
could expose by specifying a malformed reply address.
Successful exploitation would permit an attacker to disrupt
Hashcash users, and potentially execute arbitrary code.