CVE-2020-10931

Memcached vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

28.1%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Memcached 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted binary protocol header to try_read_command_binary in memcached.c.

Affected vendor

Memcached

Affected product

Memcached

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow

Published

2020-03-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 28.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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