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CVE-2014-2994 (GCVE-0-2014-2994)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-27 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:28
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Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) 8 build 20120704 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML file containing an IMG element with a long URL (src attribute).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-04-24 00:00
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