{"cve":"CVE-2014-3478","nvd":{"published":"2014-07-09T11:07:01.587","modified":"2026-06-17T00:08:16.197","status":"Modified","description":"Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-119"],"references":["http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html","http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2","http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html"],"products":["christos_zoulas:file","php:php"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:33:06.232976534+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2014-3478","score":0.15176,"percentile":0.96749,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}