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high 7.0

CVE-2024-43700 json

xfpt versions prior to 1.01 fails to handle appropriately some parameters inside the input data, resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow…

published 2024-08-29 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-40434

cvss
7.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

xfpt versions prior to 1.01 fails to handle appropriately some parameters inside the input data, resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. When a user of the affected product is tricked to process a specially crafted file, arbitrary code may be executed on the user's environment.

Patch / fix

  • philiphazel xfpt 1.01
  • xfpt Debian 12 0.11-1+deb12u1
  • xfpt Debian 14, Debian 13 1.00-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43700

  • xfpt Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 0.11-1ubuntu0.1
  • xfpt Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 1.00-2ubuntu0.24.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-43700

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Philip Hazel xfpt
  • philiphazel xfpt

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

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