CVE-2023-40857

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

EPSS

1%p63

Published

Aug 28, 2023 (Aug 28, 2023)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in VirusTotal yara v.4.3.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbtirary code via the yr_execute_cod function in the exe.c component.

Vendors: virustotal
Products: yara
Weakness: CWE-787
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.1%)

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