What is CVE-2020-17446?

CVE-2020-17446 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Magic Asyncpg, classified under Access of Uninitialized Pointer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-08-12.

How severe is CVE-2020-17446?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-17446 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Magic Asyncpg

CVE-2020-17446

asyncpg before 0.21.0 allows a malicious PostgreSQL server to trigger a crash or execute arbitrary code (on a database client) via a crafted server response, because of access to an uninitialized pointer in the array data decoder.

EPSS: 0.024 (82.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Magic Asyncpg
Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-824 — Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-17446?: CVE-2020-17446 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Magic Asyncpg, classified under Access of Uninitialized Pointer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-08-12.
How severe is CVE-2020-17446?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-17446 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.