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CVE-2007-3231

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-3231 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in MeCab versions prior to 0.96, affecting the MeCab natural language processing library. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, with a network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant media coverage, though it has received minimal community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mecab:mecab:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mecab:mecab:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.71CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mecab:mecab:0.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.72CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mecab:mecab:0.72:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.73CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mecab:mecab:0.73:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0130 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

internap.dl.sourceforge.net / sourceforge/mecab/mecab-0.96.tar.gz
Patch
osvdb.org / 41595
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/34862
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2179