Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-28163

Medium

Published: 16 April 2023

Published
16 April 2023
Modified
06 February 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0046 64.6th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-28163 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Libdwarf Project Libdwarf. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 35.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

libdwarf before 20201201 allows a dwarf_print_lines.c NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a DWARF5 line-table header that has an invalid FORM for a pathname.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

libdwarf project
libdwarf
≤ 2020-12-01

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References