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CVE-2016-8706

high · 8.1

A public exploit / detection template exists

Weaponised detection is publicly available, which meaningfully raises real-world risk regardless of CVSS. nuclei-templates

An integer overflow in process_bin_sasl_auth function in Memcached, which is responsible for authentication commands of Memcached binary protocol, can be abused to cause heap overflow and lead to remote code execution.

8.1
CVSS
45.7%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2017-01-06
Published

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-190

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
memcachedmemcached<= 1.4.31

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References

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