Risk | Medium |
Patch available | NO |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2020-12825 |
CWE-ID | CWE-400 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
libcroco Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products |
Vendor | Gnome Development Team |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU27951
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12825
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources caused by excessive recursion in cr_parser_parse_any_core in cr-parser.c. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
MitigationCybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..
Vulnerable software versionslibcroco: 0.6.2 - 0.6.13
External linkshttp://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libcroco/-/issues/8
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.