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high 7.5

CVE-2020-5734 in the critical feed json

Classic buffer overflow in SolarWinds Dameware allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a large 'S…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-26893

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
25.1%
EPSS 25.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Classic buffer overflow in SolarWinds Dameware allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a large 'SigPubkeyLen' during ECDH key exchange.

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Exploit prediction

25.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • tenable.com https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-19 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a SolarWinds Dameware

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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