Stack-based buffer overflow in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) 8 build 20120704 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code…

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) 8 build 20120704 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML file containing an IMG element with a long URL (src attribute).

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

23.3% · top 2.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/126306/Acunetix-8-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.acunetix.com/blog/news/misleading-reports-0-day-acunetix-wvs/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHaMx8K1GeM (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 32997 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• http://an7isec.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/pown-noobs-acunetix-0day.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/126307/Acunetix-8-Scanner-Buffer-Overflow.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://osandamalith.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/pwning-script-kiddies-acunetix-buffer-overflow/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 10:28 UTC.