Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-24944

HighPublic PoCDDoS

Published: 08 February 2021

Published
08 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0033 56.7th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-24944 is a high-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Privateoctopus Picoquic. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 43.3% 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

Vulnerability details

picoquic (before 3rd of July 2020) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted QUIC frame, related to the picoquic_decode_frames and picoquic_decode_stream_frame functions and epoch==3.

CWE(s)
CWE-835

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

privateoctopus
picoquic
≤ 2020-07-03

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.

CP-7 Alternate Processing Site
addresses: CWE-835

Enables transfer to alternate site if an infinite loop at the primary renders processing unavailable.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

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