Vulnerability in Ext2 Filesystems Utilities E2fsprogs

CVE-2007-5497

Multiple integer overflows in libext2fs in e2fsprogs before 1.40.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted filesystem image.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.041 (90.4th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2007-5497: held from 0.041 to 0.041.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.041 · newest: 0.041 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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