CVE-2020-16897

NetBT Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Medium · published October 16, 2020

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when NetBIOS over TCP (NBT) Extensions (NetBT) improperly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p>

<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have run a specially crafted application. The vulnerability would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate user rights directly, but it could be used to obtain information that could be used to try to further compromise the affected system.</p>

<p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how a NetBT handles objects in memory.</p>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01243 · 69.0th percentile
Published
2020-10-16T22:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 OCT 22:17Z
    NetBT Information Disclosure Vulnerability
    cvelistv5