CVE-2014-4501

Exp

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in sgminer before 4.2.2, cgminer before 4.3.5, and BFGMiner before 3.3.0 allow remote pool servers to have unspecified impact via a long URL in a client.reconnect stratum message to the (1) extract_sockaddr or (2) parse_reconnect functions in util.c.

Published: 2014-07-23 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-4501 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.6/100): CVSS Critical severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.16%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-4501

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-4501

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.28% 0.16% -0.12%
2 2025-03-29 0.16% 0.28% +0.12%
3 2025-03-27 — 0.16% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-4501

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-4501

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-4501

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-4501 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (bfgminer, cgminer), 28 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 12, DNE 7, not-affected 7, released 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4501

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-4501

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sgminer_project sgminer <= 4.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgminer_project sgminer 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgminer_project sgminer 4.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgminer_project sgminer 4.1.153 cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.1.153:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgminer_project sgminer 4.1.242 cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.1.242:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgminer_project sgminer 4.1.271 cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.1.271:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgminer_project sgminer 4.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:sgminer_project:sgminer:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cgminer_project cgminer <= 4.3.4 cpe:2.3:a:cgminer_project:cgminer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cgminer_project cgminer 4.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:cgminer_project:cgminer:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cgminer_project cgminer 4.3.1 cpe:2.3:a:cgminer_project:cgminer:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cgminer_project cgminer 4.3.2 cpe:2.3:a:cgminer_project:cgminer:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cgminer_project cgminer 4.3.3 cpe:2.3:a:cgminer_project:cgminer:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer <= 3.2.9 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.2 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.3 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.4 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.5 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.6 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.7 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bfgminer bfgminer 3.2.8 cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:3.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-4501

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