Unchecked buffer overrun in enc_untrusted_read

published 2020-12-15 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-29773

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits: 0; none known

An arbitrary memory read vulnerability in Asylo versions up to 0.6.0 allows an untrusted attacker to make a call to enc_untrusted_read whose return size was not validated against the requrested size. The parameter size is unchecked allowing the attacker to read memory locations outside of the intended buffer size including memory addresses within the secure enclave. We recommend upgrading past commit b1d120a2c7d7446d2cc58d517e20a1b184b82200

Patch / fix

links 1

github.com/google/asylo@b1d120a commit

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Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	2.1	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Google LLC Asylo

Classification

Weakness

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

References

github.com /google/asylo/commit/b1d120a2c7d7446d2cc58d517e20a1b184b82200
patch, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-8942
NVD CVE-2020-8942

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