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| KL-IDS | KLCERT-19-012 |
| CVE-IDS | CVE-2019-8265 |
| Publication date | 2019.03.01 |
| Researcher | Pavel Cheremushkin, Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT |
| Description | UltraVNC revision 1207 has multiple out-of-bounds access vulnerabilities connected with improper usage of SETPIXELS macro in VNC client code, which can potentially result code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. These vulnerabilities have been fixed in revision 1208. |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. |
| Severity | |
| CVSS v3 Base Score: | 10.0 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Exploitability | Remotely |
| Difficulty | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Existence of exploit | Unknown |
| Affected products | |
| Affected products | UltraVNC before 1.2.2.3 |
| Mitigation | |
| Vendor mitigation | Update UltraVNC to revision 1208 |
| Timeline |
Jan 2019 – Vulnerabilities reported Feb 2019 – Vendor releases patch Mar 2019 – Advisory published |