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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-17580

This can lead to Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially Information Exposure when the application attempts to process a crafted pcap file.

HIGH 7.1EPSS 1.21%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.21%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function fast_edit_packet() in the file send_packets.c of Tcpreplay v4.3.0 beta1. This can lead to Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially Information Exposure when the application attempts to process a crafted pcap file.

CVSS 3.0
7.1 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.21% probability · 67th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
broadcom/tcpreplay
Source
cve@mitre.org

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