CVE-2014-1912

highpriority · attend · 50EPSS 0.281 · 98 %ileexploit · PoCDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

28.1% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

54 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.5

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-31875Python - 'socket.recvfrom_into()' Remote Buffer OverflowPoC · exploit_db

affected products (54)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source Pythonall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:python:python:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SUSE openSUSEall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:opensuse:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
apple mac os x≤ 10.10.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.5.150nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.5.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.5.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.5.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.6.2150nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.6.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.6.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.6.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python= 2.6.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-2521Python: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2015-06-04csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Python ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen oder Code zur Ausführung zu bringen.
PSF-2014-4socket.recvfrom_into() overflow2014-02-28vendor · osvUS
Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-03-01modified 2026-06-17

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