CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-8597
Critical (9.8). EPSS 20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
eap.c in pppd in ppp 2.4.2 through 2.4.8 has an rhostname buffer overflow in the eap_request and eap_response functions.
Severity
- EPSS
- 20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-120
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- point-to-point_protocol_project:point-to-point_protocol
- wago:pfc_firmware
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00006.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156662/pppd-2.4.8-Buffer-Overflow.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156802/pppd-2.4.8-Buffer-Overflow.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/6
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0630