SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2005-1453

fetchnews in leafnode 1.9.48 to 1.11.1 allows remote NNTP servers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing the connection while fetchnews is reading (1) an article header or (2) an article body, which also prevents fetchnews from querying other…

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 1.43%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

fetchnews in leafnode 1.9.48 to 1.11.1 allows remote NNTP servers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing the connection while fetchnews is reading (1) an article header or (2) an article body, which also prevents fetchnews from querying other servers.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
1.43% probability · 72th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
leafnode/leafnode
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.