Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-35495

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 04 January 2021

Published
04 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 59.3th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-35495 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Gnu Binutils. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.7% 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

There's a flaw in binutils /bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed by the objdump program could cause a null pointer dereference. The greatest threat from this flaw is to application availability.…

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This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

gnu
binutils
≤ 2.34
fedoraproject
fedora
32
netapp
cloud backup
all versions
netapp
ontap select deploy administration utility
all versions
netapp
solidfire\, enterprise sds \& hci storage node
all versions
netapp
solidfire \& hci management node
all versions
broadcom
brocade fabric operating system firmware
all versions
netapp
hci compute node firmware
all versions

Mitigating Controls

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

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