🛡️ CVE-2020-29242 — tag

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-129 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

dhowden tag panic due to out-of-bounds read

Due to improper bounds checking, a number of methods in dhowden tag before 0.0.0-20201120070457-d52dcb253c63 can trigger a panic via readAPICFrame due to attempted out-of-bounds reads. If the package is used to parse user supplied input, this may be used as a vector for a denial of service attack.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2020-29242 is classified as CWE-129: Improper Validation of Array Index. An index derived from input is used without a range check, so the access lands outside the array.

Affected software

CVE-2020-29242 is recorded against 1 package.

  • github.com/dhowden/tag

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 20 May 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
pkg.go.dev (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-129
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/dhowden/tag — —

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