Resource exhaustion in date-and-time - CVE-2020-26289
Published: December 28, 2020 / Updated: December 30, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU49205
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-26289
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The 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 when processing regular expressions. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
date-and-time
How to mitigate CVE-2020-26289
Install updates from vendor's website.
date-and-time - update to 0.14.2