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CVE-2014-4501

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4501 describes multiple stack-based buffer overflows in sgminer before 4.2.2, cgminer before 4.3.5, and BFGMiner before 3.3.0. This vulnerability allows remote pool servers to achieve unspecified impact by sending a long URL within a client.reconnect stratum message. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this critical vulnerability has an attack vector of network, low attack complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.153CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.1.153:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.242CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.1.242:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0291 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/118
github.com / ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e
ExploitPatch
github.com / luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/c80ad8548251eb0e15329fc240c89070640c9d79
Patch
github.com / sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/78cc408369bdbbd440196c93574098d1482efbce
ExploitPatch
github.com / sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/b65574bef233474e915fdf18614aa211e31cc6c2
Patch