Vulnerability · Published Nov 19, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-28951
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.8% (higher than 78% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.8%top 21.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
libuci in OpenWrt before 18.06.9 and 19.x before 19.07.5 may encounter a use after free when using malicious package names. This is related to uci_parse_package in file.c and uci_strdup in util.c.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/uci.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a3e650911f5e6f67dcff09974df3775dfd615da6 x_refsource_MISC
- https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5625f5bc36954d644cb80adf8de47854c65d91c3 x_refsource_MISC
- https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git%3Ba=log%3Bh=refs/tags/v18.06.9 x_refsource_MISC