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Hesiod Project

First CVE: Mar 1, 2017Active for: 9 yearsTotal CVEs: 2

Hesiod Project maintains a narrowly scoped name-service library that provides distributed user and group information resolution, historically used in Unix and Linux environments for authentication and directory lookups. The vendor's vulnerability disclosures reflect the input-parsing and protocol-handling demands of a resolver component; current severity, exploitation, and exposure figures are shown alongside this summary.

FAUCET AI Generated
2
Total CVEs
More Total CVEs than 56% of tracked vendors
2.0
Avg CVEs / Product / Year
More Avg CVEs / Product / Year than 80% of tracked vendors
8.4
Avg CVSS Score
Higher Avg CVSS Score than 81% of tracked vendors
0.0%
In CISA KEV
Bottom 1%

Trends Over Time

The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Hesiod Project over time

Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Mar 1, 2017
9 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Mar 28, 2017
3,405 days ago

Products(1 total)

Top CVEs

Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (2 CVEs).

2 CVEs · Highest risk first

CVEPublishedCVSSRiskKEVExploit
CVE-2016-10152CRITICAL
The read_config_file function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 falls back to the ".athena.mit.edu" default domain when opening the configuration file fails, which allows remote atta
Mar 28, 20179.834NONO
CVE-2016-10151HIGH
The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to g
Mar 1, 20177.024NONO
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CVE Severity & Scoring

Severity distribution of CVEs that affect this vendor's products2 CVEs
50%
50%
Severity distribution among all CVEs352,231 CVEs
45%
40%
11%
HighCritical
Attack Vector
Local1 (50.0%)
Network1 (50.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low1 (50.0%)
High1 (50.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
User Interaction
None2 (100.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Required0 (0.0%)
Privileges Required
Low1 (50.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
None1 (50.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)

Exploit Exposure

Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (2 CVEs).

CISA KEV
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Metasploit
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Nuclei
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
ExploitDB
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%

Social Chatter

An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Hesiod Project.

Media Mentions

Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Hesiod Project — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.

Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For Hesiod Project's Products

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