What is CVE-2020-8192?

CVE-2020-8192 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fastify, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-07-30.

How severe is CVE-2020-8192?

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

Is CVE-2020-8192 known to be exploited?

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

Resource exhaustion in Fastify

CVE-2020-8192

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Fastify v2.14.1 and v3.0.0-rc.4 that allows a malicious user to trigger resource exhaustion (when the allErrors option is used) with specially crafted schemas.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.012 (63.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Fastify — versions 2.14.1, 3.0.0
N/a Fastify — versions Fixed in v2.15.1 and v3.0.0-rc.5. v1 not affected.

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2020-8192

References

support@hackerone.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-8192?: CVE-2020-8192 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fastify, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-07-30.
How severe is CVE-2020-8192?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-8192 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.