C-Ares Project vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

C-Ares Project has 9 published vulnerabilities across 1 product in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is C-Ares, with 9. If you run C-Ares Project software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which C-Ares Project products have the most vulnerabilities?

C-Ares leads with 9 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. C-Ares9
Published vulnerabilities
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Which C-Ares Project vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of C-Ares Project's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which C-Ares Project 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.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 54%

    A Node.js application that allows an attacker to trigger a DNS request for a host of their choice could trigger a Denial of Service in versions < 15.2.1, < 14.15.1, and < 12.19.1 by getting the application to resolve...

    CVSS7.5Published19 Nov 2020
  2. 8.6%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname...

    CVSS9.8Published3 Oct 2016
  3. 3.3%

    The c-ares function `ares_parse_naptr_reply()`, which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet was crafted in a...

    CVSS7.5Published7 Jul 2017
  4. 2.8%

    A flaw was found in c-ares library, where a missing input validation check of host names returned by DNS (Domain Name Servers) can lead to output of wrong hostnames which might potentially lead to Domain Hijacking.

    CVSS5.6Published23 Nov 2021
  5. 1.6%

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library.

    CVSS7.5Published25 May 2023
  6. 1.2%

    A flaw was found in the c-ares package. The ares_set_sortlist is missing checks about the validity of the input string, which allows a possible arbitrary length stack overflow.

    CVSS8.6Published6 Mar 2023
  7. 0.9%

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library.

    CVSS3.7Published25 May 2023
  8. 0.9%

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library.

    CVSS6.5Published25 May 2023
  9. 0.4%

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library.

    CVSS4.1Published25 May 2023
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Our catalogue lists 9 published vulnerabilities across 1 product and 37 versions from C-Ares Project.

None of C-Ares Project's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

C-Ares, with 9 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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