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Ratings
  • Attacker Value
    Low
  • Exploitability
    Very Low
Technical Analysis

Doesn’t lend itself to an attackers needs. Takes a very long time to exploit, only works on a specific architecture (32bit), easily detected/blocked as malicious and requires access to a protocol (ssh) that is commonly hardened with access control lists.

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What @noraj said! If successfully exploited, it almost likely gives root access to the system which is about as good as it gets for an attacker. But the effort required to do so is significant, making the chances of successful exploitation very low. So from a risk perspective (risk = impact * likelihood), where the impact (attacker value) is incredibly high, but the likelihood (exploitability) is very low, putting it at about medium risk.

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@cschie822_comcast it depends if one means the attacker value in case of successful exploitation (which is very high here) or if it is the global attacker value taking every other metrics into account such as the very difficult exploitability (the value is very low). So it depends if it is contextualized or not.

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interesting… your comments and your attacker value ratings don’t seem to line up.