CVE-2008-1552 describes a critical vulnerability in the SILC Toolkit (before 1.1.7), SILC Client (before 1.1.4), and SILC Server (before 1.1.2), affecting various Red Hat and SILC products. A crafted PKCS#1 message can trigger an integer underflow, signedness error, and buffer overflow in the silc_pkcs1_decode function, potentially leading to remote arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity, allowing for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. The EPSS score is low at 0.0673, suggesting a low probability of exploitation in the wild. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting a low level of public awareness or concern.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:silc_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:silc_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:silc_toolkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:silc:silc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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