What is CVE-2020-35357?

CVE-2020-35357 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Scientific Library, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-08-22.

How severe is CVE-2020-35357?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Gnu Scientific Library

CVE-2020-35357

A buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL (GNU Scientific Library), versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.009 (55.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Gnu Gnu_scientific_library — versions 2.5, 2.6
Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow)

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Mailing List)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-35357?: CVE-2020-35357 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Scientific Library, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2020-35357?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.