What is CVE-2020-15570?

CVE-2020-15570 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Whoopsie Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-07-06.

How severe is CVE-2020-15570?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Whoopsie Project

CVE-2020-15570

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.

Published 2020-07-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Whoopsie Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

www.youtube.com/watch (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie (Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/ (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-15570?: CVE-2020-15570 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Whoopsie Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-07-06.
How severe is CVE-2020-15570?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.