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CVE-2019-17424

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected products

• Nipper-Ng Project Nipper-Ng: 0.11.10

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
• 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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