CVE-2020-15570

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.1%

Medium (5.5) in whoopsie project whoopsie. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The parse_report() function in whoopsie.c in Whoopsie through 0.2.69 mishandles memory allocation failures, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a malformed crash file.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-770
Published: 2020-07-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

whoopsie_project:whoopsie

References

https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE

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