{"id":"CVE-2023-46052","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-46052","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:12:53.455Z","title":"NOTE: this is disputed because there is no expectation that test.c code should be executed with an attacker-controlled configuration file.","description":"Sane 1.2.1 heap bounds overwrite in init_options() from backend/test.c via a long init_mode string in a configuration file. NOTE: this is disputed because there is no expectation that test.c code should be executed with an attacker-controlled configuration file.","published":"2024-03-27T06:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T06:29:57.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["sane-project/sane backends"],"epss":{"score":0.00364,"percentile":0.30113,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.36%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/69","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/709","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176823/sane-1.2.1-Buffer-Overflow.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/69","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/709","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46052","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}