VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-5645

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability4.25%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-12-30
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that, when processed would lead to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references