🛡️ CVE-2020-25969 on Debian — gnuplot

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

gnuplot v5.5 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the function plotrequest().

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2020-25969 as tracked by Debian, for the package gnuplot. The fix is available in version 6.0.0+dfsg1-1; earlier versions remain affected.

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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25969 is recorded against 1 package.

gnuplot (fixed in 6.0.0+dfsg1-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 July 2023 and last revised on 5 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2020-25969 on other distributions

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Ubuntu

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2023-07-05

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2026-08-05

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
gnuplot	—	6.0.0+dfsg1-1

References

ADVISORY https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-25969

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