Is CVE-2011-1071 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2011-1071 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2011-1071?

CVE-2011-1071 has a CVSS v2 base score of 5.1 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2011-1071?

CVE-2011-1071 has an EPSS score of 14.32% (96th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2011-1071

MEDIUMEPSS 96th pctl

5.1

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.12.2 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call, aka a "stack extension attack," a related issue to CVE-2010-2898, CVE-2010-1917, and CVE-2007-4782, as originally reported for use of this library by Google Chrome.

CWE-399

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

14.32%probability of exploitation in 30 days

96thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-29.