What is CVE-2020-24944?

CVE-2020-24944 is a high-severity vulnerability in Privateoctopus Picoquic, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-02-08.

How severe is CVE-2020-24944?

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

Is CVE-2020-24944 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in Privateoctopus Picoquic

CVE-2020-24944

picoquic (before 3rd of July 2020) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted QUIC frame, related to the picoquic_decode_frames and picoquic_decode_stream_frame functions and epoch==3.

EPSS: 0.015 (70.9th 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

Privateoctopus Picoquic
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-24944?: CVE-2020-24944 is a high-severity vulnerability in Privateoctopus Picoquic, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-02-08.
How severe is CVE-2020-24944?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-24944 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.