CVE-2020-17446
Asyncpg Arbitrary Code Execution Via Access to an Uninitialized Pointer
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.1%
Description
asyncpg before 0.21.0 allows a malicious PostgreSQL server to trigger a crash or execute arbitrary code (on a database client) via a crafted server response, because of access to an uninitialized pointer in the array data decoder.
How to fix CVE-2020-17446
To remediate CVE-2020-17446, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/asyncpg—upgrade to 0.21.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.8.4-1+deb9u1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.21.0 or later
- —upgrade to 0.21.0 or later
Is CVE-2020-17446 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 0.21.0-1
- from 0, < 0.8.4-1+deb9u1
- from 0, < 0.21.0
- from 0, < 0.21.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |