CVE-2020-19722
Published: 13 July 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-19722 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Axiosys Bento4. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 47.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-11620
Vulnerability details
An unhandled memory allocation failure in Core/Ap4Atom.cpp of Bento 1.5.1-628 causes a direct copy to NULL pointer dereference, leading to a denial of service (DOS).
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.