Is CVE-2020-29490 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-29490 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-29490?

CVE-2020-29490 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-29490?

CVE-2020-29490 has an EPSS score of 1.48% (71th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-29490?

Upgrade emc unity operating environment to 5.0.4.0.5.012 or later. Fixes are available for 3 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-29490

HIGHEPSS 71th pctl

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Dell EMC Unity, Unity XT, and UnityVSA versions prior to 5.0.4.0.5.012 contain a Denial of Service vulnerability on NAS Servers with NFS exports. A remote authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability and cause Denial of Service (Storage Processor Panic) by sending specially crafted UDP requests.

CWE-400Resource Exhaustion

How to fix

Remediation Available

emc unity operating environmentNVD

Affected:< 5.0.4.0.5.012Fixed in:5.0.4.0.5.012CVE-2020-29490derived from NVD

emc unity vsa operating environmentNVD

Affected:< 5.0.4.0.5.012Fixed in:5.0.4.0.5.012CVE-2020-29490derived from NVD

emc unity xt operating environmentNVD

Affected:< 5.0.4.0.5.012Fixed in:5.0.4.0.5.012CVE-2020-29490derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

1.48%probability of exploitation in 30 days

71stpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 71% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

dell.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-400 (Resource Exhaustion) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2023-44487	High	7.5	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2021-44228	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2011-3192	High	7.8	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-11478	Medium	5.3	95%	-	Fix
CVE-2024-25617	Medium	5.3	89%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-1000115	High	7.5	89%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.