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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVE-2021-44154

Severity High
Score 7.2/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Reprise RLM 14.2. By using an admin account, an attacker can write a payload to /goform/edit_opt, which will then be triggered when running the diagnostics (via /goform/diagnostics_doit), resulting in a buffer overflow.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

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