Vulnerability · Published Nov 13, 2020 · Assigned by checkpoint

CVE-2020-6019

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Game Networking Sockets. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.8% (higher than 86% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.8%top 13.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles inlined statistics messages in function CConnectionTransportUDPBase::Received_Data(), leading to an exception thrown from libprotobuf and resulting in a crash.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a Game Networking Sockets All versions prior to v1.2.0

Weakness: CWE-248

References