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CVE-2020-25681

8.1 highEPSS 84%

High (8.1). EPSS 84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way RRSets are sorted before validating with DNSSEC data. An attacker on the network, who can forge DNS replies such as that they are accepted as valid, could use this flaw to cause a buffer overflow with arbitrary data in a heap memory segment, possibly executing code on the machine. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.1 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-122
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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