CVE-2020-5235CWE-125

Out-of-memory condition in Nanopb is potentially exploitable

Medium · published February 4, 2020

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
77.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

There is a potentially exploitable out of memory condition In Nanopb before 0.4.1, 0.3.9.5, and 0.2.9.4. When nanopb is compiled with PB_ENABLE_MALLOC, the message to be decoded contains a repeated string, bytes or message field and realloc() runs out of memory when expanding the array nanopb can end up calling `free()` on a pointer value that comes from uninitialized memory. Depending on platform this can result in a crash or further memory corruption, which may be exploitable in some cases. This problem is fixed in nanopb-0.4.1, nanopb-0.3.9.5, nanopb-0.2.9.4.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01726 · 77.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2020-02-04T03:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 FEB 03:00Z
    Out-of-memory condition in Nanopb is potentially exploitable
    cvelistv5