Is CVE-2020-35679 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-35679 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-35679?

CVE-2020-35679 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-35679?

CVE-2020-35679 has an EPSS score of 2.83% (85th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-35679?

Upgrade opensmtpd on debian 11 to 6.8.0p2-1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-35679

HIGHEPSS 85th pctl

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

smtpd/table.c in OpenSMTPD before 6.8.0p1 lacks a certain regfree, which might allow attackers to trigger a "very significant" memory leak via messages to an instance that performs many regex lookups.

CWE-401Missing Release of Memory (Memory Leak)

How to fix

Remediation Available

opensmtpdDebian

Fixed in:6.8.0p2-1CVE-2020-35679

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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

2.83%probability of exploitation in 30 days

85thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 85% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

github.com

Third-Party Advisory2

Other references3

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-401 (Missing Release of Memory (Memory Leak)) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2020-13934	High	7.5	64%	-	Fix
CVE-2016-6304	High	7.5	63%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-12265	Medium	5.3	55%	-	Fix
CVE-2001-0136	Medium	5.0	45%	-	-
CVE-2016-4232	High	7.5	36%	-	-
CVE-2001-0543	Medium	5.0	19%	-	-

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