CVE-2014-4502
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 3.3%EU EUVD
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the parse_notify function in sgminer before 4.2.2, cgminer before 4.3.5, and BFGMiner before 4.1.0 allow remote pool servers to have unspecified impact via a (1) large or (2) negative value in the Extranonc2_size parameter in a mining.subscribe response and a crafted mining.notify request.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.3% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-4429)
- Published
- July 23, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-4429 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- bfgminer / bfgminer
- sgminer project / sgminer
- sgminer project / sgminer
- sgminer project / sgminer
- sgminer project / sgminer
- sgminer project / sgminer
- sgminer project / sgminer
- sgminer project / sgminer
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/119
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68831
- https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/e1c5050734123973b99d181c45e74b2cbb00272e(Exploit, Patch)
- https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/ff7f30129f15f7a2213f8ced0cd65c9a331493d9(Exploit, Patch)
- https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/bac5831b355f916e0696b7bbcccfc51c057b729a(Exploit, Patch)
- https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/issues/258
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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