CVE-2023-46960 (GCVE-0-2023-46960)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-29 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 21:01
VLAI
Summary
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in PyPXE v.1.8.4 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the handle function in the tftp module.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pure_python_pxe pypxe Affected: 1.8.4
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