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CVE-2014-2285

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-2285 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Net-SNMP versions 5.7.3.pre3 and earlier, specifically within the perl_trapd_handler function. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the snmptrapd daemon by sending an SNMP trap with an empty community string, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:net-snmp:net-snmp:*:pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0331 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: net-snmp-1:5.3.2.2-22.el5_10.1
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-2285Moderate

net-snmp: snmptrapd crash when using a trap with empty community string

Mar 3, 2014

References

comments.gmane.org / gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12284
kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00060.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00061.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/59974
sourceforge.net / p/net-snmp/patches/1275
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0322.html
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201409-02.xml
nntp.perl.org / group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/09/msg116250.html