CVE-2020-6071
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.47%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2020-6071
To remediate CVE-2020-6071, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.2.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 3.0.8-4 or later
Is CVE-2020-6071 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.2.0-1
- from 0, < 3.0.8-4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |