CVE-2020-7852
Published: 24 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-7852 is a high-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Hmtalk Daviewindy. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 39.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-28784
Vulnerability details
DaviewIndy has a Heap-based overflow vulnerability, triggered when the user opens a malformed ex.j2c format file that is mishandled by Daview.exe. Attackers could exploit this and arbitrary code execution.
- 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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.