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CVE-2020-25928

CVE-2020-25928 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

The DNS feature in InterNiche NicheStack TCP/IP 4.0.1 is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: execute arbitrary code (remote). The component is: DNS response processing functions: dns_upcall(), getoffset(), dnc_set_answer(). The attack vector is: a specific DNS response packet. The code does not check the "response data length" field of individual DNS answers, which may cause out-of-bounds read/write operations, leading to Information leak, Denial-or-Service, or Remote Code Execution, depending on the context.

EPSS 5.96% · 90.8th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
5.96%
90.8th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
hcc-embeddednichestack_tcp\/ip4.0.1

Timeline

  • Aug 4, 2021 PoC Published
  • Aug 18, 2021 CVE Published
  • Aug 19, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Oct 16, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 10, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Apr 10, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jun 7, 2022 EPSS Score
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  • Jan 28, 2023 EPSS Score
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