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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2012-5645

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.25%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that, when processed would lead to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
4.25% probability · 90th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-400
Affected
freeciv/freeciv · fedoraproject/fedora
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

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