#VU27951 Resource exhaustion in libcroco - CVE-2020-12825
Published: May 15, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU27951
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12825
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
libcroco
libcroco
Software vendor:
Gnome Development Team
Gnome Development Team
Description
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 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.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..