CVE-2023-31979 describes a global buffer overflow vulnerability in Catdoc v0.95, specifically within the process_file function in reader.c. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating that a local, low-privileged attacker could achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploits available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received no significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.95CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fossies:catdoc:0.95:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.