Vulnerability · Published Mar 16, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-7919

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the containerd package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.6% (higher than 86% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.6%top 14.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Go before 1.12.16 and 1.13.x before 1.13.7 (and the crypto/cryptobyte package before 0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68 for Go) allows attacks on clients (resulting in a panic) via a malformed X.509 certificate.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20containerd1.3.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.21containerd1.3.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.22containerd1.3.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.23containerd1.3.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.24containerd1.3.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.20go1.13.7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.21go1.13.7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.22go1.13.7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.23go1.13.7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Alpine:v3.24go1.13.7-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-7919
Gogithub.com/helm/helm2.16.8GHSA-cjjc-xp8v-855w
Gogolang.org/x/crypto0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68GO-2022-0229
Gogolang.org/x/crypto0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68GHSA-cjjc-xp8v-855w
Gohelm.sh/helm/v33.1.0GHSA-cjjc-xp8v-855w
Gostdlib1.12.16, 1.13.7GO-2022-0229

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References