CVE-2019-17424

7.8 highEPSS 13%

High (7.8) in nipper-ng project nipper-ng. EPSS 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A stack-based buffer overflow in the processPrivilage() function in IOS/process-general.c in nipper-ng 0.11.10 allows remote attackers (serving firewall configuration files) to achieve Remote Code Execution or Denial Of Service via a crafted file.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2019-10-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nipper-ng_project:nipper-ng

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155378/nipper-ng-0.11.10-Remote-Buffer-Overflow.html
https://blog.vastart.dev/2019/10/stack-overflow-cve-2019-17424.html
https://code.google.com/archive/p/nipper-ng/source/default/source
https://github.com/guywhataguy/CVE-2019-17424
https://twitter.com/va_start

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