CVE-2014-2994 describes a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) 8 build 20120704. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to open a malicious HTML file containing an IMG element with an excessively long URL. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is critical, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, indicating its exploitability, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:acunetix:web_vulnerability_scanner:8:build_20120704:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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 records are not available for this CVE.