CVE-2020-5235 MEDIUM

CVE-2020-5235: Out-of-memory condition in Nanopb is potentially exploitable

Vendor Nanopb
Product Nanopb
Weakness CWE-125
Published February 4, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

There is a potentially exploitable out of memory condition In Nanopb before 0.4.1, 0.3.9.5, and 0.2.9.4. When nanopb is compiled with PB_ENABLE_MALLOC, the message to be decoded contains a repeated string, bytes or message field and realloc() runs out of memory when expanding the array nanopb can end up calling `free()` on a pointer value that comes from uninitialized memory. Depending on platform this can result in a crash or further memory corruption, which may be exploitable in some cases. This problem is fixed in nanopb-0.4.1, nanopb-0.3.9.5, nanopb-0.2.9.4.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 4, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated