7.5
CVE-2020-6071
- EPSS 0.61%
- Published 24.03.2020 21:15:14
- Last modified 21.11.2024 05:35:02
- Source talos-cna@cisco.com
- CVE-Watchlists
- Open
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the resource record-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the compression pointer is followed without checking for recursion, leading to a denial of service. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Videolabs ≫ Libmicrodns Version0.1.0
Debian ≫ Debian Linux Version9.0
| Type | Source | Score | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPSS | FIRST.org | 0.61% | 0.688 |
| Source | Base Score | Exploit Score | Impact Score | Vector string |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvd@nist.gov | 7.5 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
|
| nvd@nist.gov | 5 | 10 | 2.9 |
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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| talos-cna@cisco.com | 7.5 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.