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James Ashton

First CVE: Jul 1, 2009Active for: 17 yearsTotal CVEs: 1

James Ashton has a niche vulnerability footprint centered on the compface utility, a specialized image-encoding tool used for embedding face images in email headers. The durable signal in this vendor's disclosures reflects memory-safety issues, specifically improper restriction of operations within buffer bounds, which is characteristic of image-parsing code. Current exploitation activity and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.

FAUCET AI Generated
1
Total CVEs
Bottom 1%
1.0
Avg CVEs / Product / Year
More Avg CVEs / Product / Year than 12% of tracked vendors
4.3
Avg CVSS Score
Higher Avg CVSS Score than 2% 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 James Ashton over time

Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Jul 1, 2009
17 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Jul 1, 2009
6,232 days ago

Products(1 total)

Top CVEs

Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (1 CVEs).

1 CVEs · Highest risk first

CVEPublishedCVSSRiskKEVExploit
CVE-2009-2286MEDIUM
Buffer overflow in compface 1.5.2 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long declaration in a .xbm file. NOTE: this issue only affe
Jul 1, 20094.322NOYES
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CVE Severity & Scoring

Severity distribution of CVEs that affect this vendor's products1 CVEs
100%
Severity distribution among all CVEs352,231 CVEs
45%
40%
11%
Medium
Attack Vector
Local0 (0.0%)
Network0 (0.0%)
Unknown1 (100.0%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low0 (0.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
Unknown1 (100.0%)
User Interaction
None0 (0.0%)
Unknown1 (100.0%)
Required0 (0.0%)
Privileges Required
Low0 (0.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
None0 (0.0%)
Unknown1 (100.0%)

Exploit Exposure

Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (1 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
1 CVE
100.0% of CVEs· 85th percentile

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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

Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For James Ashton's Products

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Top CWEs