CVE-2020-16591

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
Description
A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2.35 due to an invalid read in process_symbol_table, as demonstrated in readeif.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-16591
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-12-09T21:15:15
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-03-23T15:03:33
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-125 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/ Technical Description
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16591
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16591
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 15:44:45 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 17:52:13 2020-12-09T21:15Z 2020-12-09T21:15:15 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 17:52:13 2022-03-23T15:03:33 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 17:52:13 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated