Vulnerability · Published Jan 30, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-8442

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-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 2.4% (higher than 84% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)2.4%top 16.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the rootcheck decoder component via an authenticated client.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1820 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1821 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.ossec.net/ x_refsource_MISC
GLSA-202007-33 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO