Vulnerability CVE-2020-8244


Published: 2020-08-30

Description:
A buffer over-read vulnerability exists in bl <4.0.3, <3.0.1 and <2.2.1 which could allow an attacker to supply user input (even typed) that if it ends up in consume() argument and can become negative, the BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via regular .slice() calls.

Type:

CWE-125

(Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.5/10
4.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
Partial
Affected software
Bufferlist project -> Bufferlist 

 References:
https://hackerone.com/reports/966347

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