CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-5208
High (8.8). EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
It's been found that multiple functions in ipmitool before 1.8.19 neglect proper checking of the data received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overflows and potentially to remote code execution on the ipmitool side. This is especially dangerous if ipmitool is run as a privileged user. This problem is fixed in version 1.8.19.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-120
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- ipmitool_project:ipmitool
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00031.html
- https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/commit/e824c23316ae50beb7f7488f2055ac65e8b341f2
- https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/security/advisories/GHSA-g659-9qxw-p7cp
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00006.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00029.html