Socks 5 vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Socks 5 is made by Nec. We track 3 published vulnerabilities in it, across 2 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Socks 5, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Socks 5's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Socks 5 flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 6.9%CVE-2002-2368Critical
Multiple buffer overflows in NEC SOCKS5 1.0 r11 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long username to (1) the GetString function in proxy.c for the...
- 0.6%CVE-2000-1183High
Buffer overflow in socks5 server on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long connection request.
- 0.4%CVE-1999-1435High
Buffer overflow in libsocks5 library of Socks 5 (socks5) 1.0r5 allows local users to gain privileges via long environmental variables.
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Multiple buffer overflows in NEC SOCKS5 1.0 r11 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long username to (1) the GetString function in proxy.c for the SOCKS5 module or (2) the HandleS4Connection function in proxy.c for the SOCKS4 module.
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We track 3 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Socks 5, across 2 versions.
None of Socks 5's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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