What is CVE-2020-17442?

CVE-2020-17442 is a high-severity vulnerability in Altran Picotcp, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-12-11.

How severe is CVE-2020-17442?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Altran Picotcp

CVE-2020-17442

An issue was discovered in picoTCP 1.7.0. The code for parsing the hop-by-hop IPv6 extension headers does not validate the bounds of the extension header length value, which may result in Integer Wraparound. Therefore, a crafted extension…

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

EPSS: 0.029 (85.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Altran Picotcp
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-17442?: CVE-2020-17442 is a high-severity vulnerability in Altran Picotcp, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-12-11.
How severe is CVE-2020-17442?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.