7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access 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
0.04 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.9%
The Perl Development page reports:
Dyad Security recently released a security advisory explaining how
in certain cases, a carefully crafted format string passed to
sprintf can cause a buffer overflow. This buffer overflow can then
be used by an attacker to execute code on the machine. This was
discovered in the context of a design problem with the Webmin
administration package that allowed a malicious user to pass
unchecked data into sprintf.