Medium severity · published May 18, 2021
CVE-2020-23856
Use-after-Free vulnerability in cflow 1.6 in the void call(char *name, int line) function at src/parser.c, which could cause a denial of service via the pointer variable…
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Use-after-Free vulnerability in cflow 1.6 in the void call(char *name, int line) function at src/parser.c, which could cause a denial of service via the pointer variable caller->callee.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CF
Cflow · Gnu
1.6 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33; 34 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-23856
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-23856
Exploit
https://github.com/yangjiageng/PoC/blob/master/PoC_cflow_uaf_parser_line1284
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BLSXGFK2NYPCJMPHSHE3W56ZU3ZO6RD7/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FZTTKZX274BVFZX7TMPEZG6UWL6UPMQF/
Exploit
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cflow/2020-07/msg00000.html
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