What is CVE-2020-5806?

CVE-2020-5806 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rockwellautomation Factorytalk_linx, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-12-29.

How severe is CVE-2020-5806?

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

Resource exhaustion in Rockwellautomation Factorytalk_linx

CVE-2020-5806

An attacker-controlled memory allocation size can be passed to the C++ new operator in the CServerManager::HandleBrowseLoadIconStreamRequest in messaging.dll. This can be done by sending a specially crafted message to 127.0.0.1:7153. Obser…

EPSS: 0.048 (90.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Rockwellautomation Factorytalk_linx
N/a Rockwell Factorytalk Linx — versions All versions of FactoryTalk Linx

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

vulnreport@tenable.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5806?: CVE-2020-5806 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rockwellautomation Factorytalk_linx, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-12-29.
How severe is CVE-2020-5806?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.